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The World Conference on Human Rights was held by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, on 14 to 25 June 1993. [1] It was the first human rights conference held since the end of the Cold War . The main result of the conference was the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action .
The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA) is a human rights declaration adopted by consensus at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993 in Vienna, Austria. [1] The position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was recommended by this Declaration and subsequently created by General Assembly Resolution 48/ ...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
At the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, one of the largest international gatherings on human rights, [95] diplomats and officials representing 100 nations reaffirmed their governments' "commitment to the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and ...
OHCHR presence at the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Kenya. The mandate of OHCHR derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. [8]
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 1948) Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (UN, 1975) Declaration on the Right to Development (UN study published in 1979; UN declaration proclaimed in 1986) Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (World Conference on Human Rights, 1993)
The 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action states in Article 10 "The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the "right to development", as established in the Declaration on the Right to Development, as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights. As stated in the Declaration on the Right to ...
The World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 opposed the distinction between civil and political rights (negative rights) and economic, social and cultural rights (positive rights) that resulted in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action proclaiming that "all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated".