Thirty years have passed since the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action was adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, due to which the four human rights principles of universality, interdependence, indivisibility, and progressivity were consolidated.
In this context, the four principles outlined above operate on the common basis that one right cannot be exercised without the other.
In addition to the above, this Declaration placed the creation of an International Criminal Court at the centre of the international agenda of nations, with the sole objective of protecting human rights in the world.
It is essential to point out that it was in this document that the human rights of women were fully recognised at the international level, which meant an advance for international society in all possible aspects, now women and girls enjoyed by international law, protection and assistance to exercise their rights fully, which increases the quality of life of nations.
But greater was the achievement of this Declaration: the creation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Human rights now form part of a universal system of promotion and defence in which the human collective will enjoy a body in the United Nations system to be fully protected in its rights based on human dignity.
Many were the achievements and advances of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, being the universal event par excellence for the consolidation of human rights in the international system.
However, although today the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action is bearing fruit, there is still work to be done, especially to protect human rights in places where there is conflict such as Ukraine or Sudan, or where humanitarian aid is needed such as Syria.
Increased international cooperation and a thorough analysis of how human rights are being implemented in each country has become a necessity to improve the protection and care of human rights around the world.
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