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

A/RES/52/148View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112d Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, published in 1998.

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?

5 subjects

Declarations Human Rights Human Rights Violations Information Dissemination Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

16 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;

Also reaffirms 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 for all 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, in particular in the context of the public information and human rights education activities for the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including through training programmes, human rights education and public information, in order to promote increased awareness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the General Assembly, 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 World Conference;

Takes note of the oral report of the Chairman of the Working Group of the Third Committee mandated to consider aspects of the implementation of the recommendations of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as set out in paragraphs 17 and 18 of part II of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and underlines the need for its full implementation;

Emphasizes the important role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the system of the United Nations human rights organs, as defined in its resolution 48/141, including her role in the process of analysis of the functioning of the United Nations human rights machinery and its adaptation to current and future needs;

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, in particular in the context of the preparations for the 1998 five-year review;

Welcomes the fact that, in accordance with paragraph 100 of part II of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the High Commissioner has invited Governments and United Nations agencies and programmes related to human rights to provide reports on the progress made in the implementation of the recommendations adopted by the World Conference and has invited regional and, as appropriate, national human rights institutions, as well as non-governmental organizations, to present their views in this regard;

Calls upon all States to contribute actively to the 1998 five-year review;

Welcomes the inter-agency consultations of the High Commissioner with all United Nations programmes and agencies whose activities deal with human rights for the preparations 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 once again Economic and Social Council decision 1996/283, in which the Council endorsed the recommendation of the Commission on Human Rights to consider devoting the coordination segment of 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 paragraph 100 of part II of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;

Requests the High Commissioner to present an interim report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fourth session and a final report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the progress made in the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, as foreseen in paragraph 100 of part II of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, taking into account reports provided by States and by United Nations organs and agencies related to human rights and views presented by regional and, as appropriate, national human rights institutions, as well as by non-governmental organizations;

Decides to review at its fifty-third session, as foreseen in paragraph 100 of part II of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the progress made in the implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, under the sub-item entitled "Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action".

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