Secretary-General's Message to World Conference on Human Rights

UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali delivers a message to the World Conference on Human Rights.

• Categories: News & Features / Messages
• Video Length: 00:09:10
• Production Date: 30 March 1993
• Asset Language: English; French
• Personal Subject: BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI
• Subject Topical: EQUALITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• MAMS Id: 2334744
• Parent Id: 842605

Description

On 25 June 1993, representatives of 171 States adopted by consensus the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference on Human Rights, thus successfully closing the two-week World Conference and presenting to the international community a common plan for the strengthening of human rights work around the world.

The conference was marked by an unprecedented degree of participation by government delegates and the international human rights community. Some 7,000 participants, including academics, treaty bodies, national institutions and representatives of more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- two thirds of them at the grass-roots level -- gathered in Vienna to review and profit from their shared experiences.

United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in a message to the Conference, told the delegates that by adopting the Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action they had renewed the international community's commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights. He saluted the meeting for having forged "a new vision for global action for human rights into the next century".

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World Conference on Human Rights