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President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (left) of Haïti, addressing the Commission on Human Rights, declares that the Commission must take a stronger stand against Governments that come to power through the force of arms. He said that some of the 20 000 people who had fled last September's putsch in Haïti had been put in camps reminiscent of the slave trade. Forced repatriation, he added, could be considered an act of racial discrimination.

The First International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was commemorated this morning by a special meeting held in the Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The meeting was opened by Professor Petr Nedbailo, Chairman of the twenty-third session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, now meeting in Geneva. He recalled that March 21 commemorated the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, when peaceful demonstrations were fired upon and killed by the authorities. The decision to proclaim March 21 as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was made by the General Assembly at its 23rd session.
The presiding table during a statement by Mr. Marc Schreiber, Director UN Human Rights Division. Left to right: Pier P. Spinelli, Director-General of UN Office in Geneva; Prof. Petr Nedbailo, Chairman of 23rd session of UN Human Rights Commission; Marc Schreiber; Valentin Romanov, Secretary of the Commission; Maxime-Leopold Zoliner (Dahomey), Vice-Chairman.