Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1995
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SymbolA/RES/49/208
TitleComprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
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 UN; requests the Secretary-General to ensure wide distribution of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and urges all States to continue to give it widespread publicity in order to promote increased awareness of human rights and fundamental freedoms; calls upon all States to take further action with a view to the full realization of human rights in the light of the recommendations of the Conference; requests the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and other organs and bodies of the UN system related to human rights to take further action with a view to the full implementation of all the recommendations of the Conference; reiterates the request of the Conference that immediate steps be taken to increase substantially the resources for the human rights programme from within the existing and future regular budgets of UN; requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as the UN official with principal responsibility for UN human rights activities, to submit, no later than 15 Feb. 1995, for the preparation of the programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, a report with a detailed plan on the human and financial resource requirements of the implementation of the recommendations of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action that have been endorsed by the competent UN organs or on which those organs have taken decisions (adopted without vote, 94th meeting, 23 Dec. 1994.
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A/49/251 100d Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. HUMAN RIGHTS--PROGRAMME OF ACTION (1993)
Date[New York] : UN, 6 Mar. 1995.
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Adopted at the 94th plenary meeting, 23 Dec. 1994.