Comprehensive Implementation of and Follow-Up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

A/RES/51/118View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 110d Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1995–1999

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/53/166

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1999	A/RES/53/166	Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action	614	21%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/148	Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action	1,494	46%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/118	Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action	1,355	39%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/201	Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action	1,106	35%Compare
1995	A/RES/49/208	Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action	980	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Declarations Human Rights Advancement Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the importance of the promotion of universal respect for and observance and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as expressed in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Reaffirms also the views of the World Conference on Human Rights on the urgency of eliminating denials and violations of human rights;

Recognizes that the international community should devise ways and means to remove current obstacles and meet the challenges to the full realization of all human rights and to prevent the continuation of human rights violations resulting therefrom throughout the world;

Calls upon all States to take further action with a view to the full realization of all human rights in the light of the recommendations of the Conference;

Urges all States to continue to give widespread publicity to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, including through training programmes, human rights education and public information, in order to promote increased awareness of human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights and other organs and bodies of the United Nations system related to human rights to take further action with a view to the full implementation of all the recommendations of the Conference;

Also requests the High Commissioner to continue to coordinate the human rights promotion and protection activities throughout the United Nations system, as set out in resolution 48/141, including through a permanent dialogue with the United Nations agencies and programmes whose activities deal with human rights;

Invites the Administrative Committee on Coordination to continue to discuss the implications of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action for the United Nations system, with the participation of the High Commissioner;

Takes note of the intention of the High Commissioner to invite all States and all organs and agencies of the United Nations system related to human rights to carry out a thorough evaluation of the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as part of the 1998 five-year review foreseen in part II, paragraph 100, of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Welcomes the inter-agency consultations of the High Commissioner with all United Nations programmes and agencies whose activities deal with human rights for the preparation of the 1998 five-year review, and calls upon them to contribute actively to this process;

Encourages regional and national human rights institutions as well as non-governmental organizations to present, on this occasion, their views on the progress made in the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Welcomes and supports Economic and Social Council decision 1996/283 of 24 July 1996,⁵in which the Council endorsed the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights to consider devoting the coordination segment at its substantive session of 1998 to the question of the coordinated follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action as part of the 1998 five-year review foreseen in part II, paragraph 100, of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

⁵See A/51/3 (Part II), chap. V, sect. A; see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 3.

Requests the High Commissioner to continue to report on the measures taken and the progress achieved in the comprehensive implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, in particular concerning the preparation of the 1998 five-year review;

Decides to consider this question at its fifty-second session under the sub-item entitled "Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action".

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