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

A/RES/50/201View 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 1996.

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

Conferences Coordination Within UN System Human Rights Advancement Information Dissemination Programme Implementation

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;

Endorses the reaffirmation in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 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;

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 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 order to promote increased awareness of human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Reiterates the request of the Conference that immediate steps be taken to increase substantially the resources for the human rights programme from within existing and future regular budgets of the United Nations;

Welcomes with appreciation the work of the High Commissioner accomplished thus far, and expresses its commitment to continue to cooperate with and support the High Commissioner in the discharge of his mandate, as set out in resolution 48/141;

Requests the High Commissioner, 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 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;

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;

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

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