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The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA) is a human rights declaration adopted by consensus at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993 in Vienna, Austria. The position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was recommended by this Declaration and subsequently created by General Assembly 48/121.

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The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA) is a human rights declaration adopted by consensus at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993 in Vienna, Austria. The position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was recommended by this Declaration and subsequently created by General Assembly 48/121.

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171 governments participated in the conference and created the final statement.

Women's rights and domestic violence:

The VDPA includes this when discussing women's rights and domestic violence:

"Gender-based violence and all forms of sexual harassment and exploitation, including those resulting from cultural prejudice and international trafficking, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person, and must be eliminated. "

The Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action: After Five Years

A follow up to the original Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action was written five years later by Warren Allmand, the chair for the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development. This was written on the 5th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action and the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration. Included in this statement was a report on what progress had been made on the goals the preamble and two parts of the declaration had laid out. The progress documented included the reconstruction of the Centre for Human Rights due to the position of High Commissioner being established. Movements that have pushed forward the battle of impunity and turnover of judgments in terms of rape and violence against women were made include the House of Lords making a judgment surrounding Pinochet and immunity, the Statue creating the International Criminal Court, the 1994 South African inauguration of democracy, the Centre for Human Rights adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. The statement concludes that there is still much to do to reach the goals of the conference.