INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS URGE STATES TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION

TO END IMMUNITY FOR VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

ISRAELI BOMB LANDS WITHIN 200 METRES OF 3,100 SCHOOLCHILDREN  

(Reissued as received.)

GAZA, 7 March (UNRWA) -- At 9 a.m. today an Israeli F16 dropped a large bomb on the Palestinian Police headquarters compound in Gaza City. The bomb exploded within 200 metres of 3,100 refugee children, aged between six and 15 years old, who were attending three schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN ADVANCE OF ZIMBABWE’S WEEKEND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

URGES PEOPLE TO VOTE WITHOUT FEAR, IN KNOWLEDGE BALLOT IS SECRET

The following statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued today in New York:

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Fifth Committee

45^th Meeting (AM)

NEGLECTING PREVENTIVE ACTION ‘A RECIPE FOR DISASTER’,

SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Following is the text of yesterday’s address by Secretary-General Kofi Annanto the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations:

SECRETARY-GENERAL CONDEMNS KILLING OF UN STAFF MEMBER

BY ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN WEST BANK

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-sixth Session

8^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION ON STATUS OF WOMEN CONSIDERS FOLLOW-UP

TO 2001 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SESSION

Also Briefed by Population, Sustainable Development Divisions

Commission on Status of Women

Forty-sixth Session

7^th Meeting (AM)

WOMEN’S COMMISSION DISCUSSES POSSIBLE CHANGES TO REPORTING PROCEDURES

ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

The Commission on the Status of Women continued its forty-seventh session this morning with a discussion on how to improve its communications procedure for reports about violations of women’s human rights. 

INSPIRATION FOR PEACE IN MIDEAST MUST COME FROM LEADERS, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON SANCTIONS AGAINST UNITA

REMOVES TWO NAMES FROM LIST OF UNITA OFFICIALS

The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 864 (1993) concerning the situation in Angola has removed the names of Mr. Joao Baptista “Zaboba” and Mr. Valentim Motoso Satumbo Sapalalo from the list of “Senior UNITA Officials and Immediate Adult Family Members” (Press Release SC/7162 of 4 October 2001).