Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

Headings: 
World Conferences on Women's Rights
Corporate Author: 
United Nations
Title: 
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
Document Type: 
International Conventions and Declarations
Reference: 
World Conference on Human Rights, U.N. Doc. A/CONF.157/24 (Part I) at 20 (1993)
URL: 
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu5/wchr.htm
Annotation: 
The World Conference on Human Rights, held in 1993, adopted by consensus the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. The Conference took historic new steps to promote and protect the rights of women, children and indigenous peoples. The Vienna Declaration reaffirms international human rights principles and specifically emphasizes women's rights in various provisions and in a section on "the equal status and human rights of women".