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The World Conference on Human Rights was held by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, on 14 to 25 June 1993. It was the first human rights conference held since the end of the Cold War. The main result of the conference was the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. ==Background== Although the United Nations had long been active in the field of human rights,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Timeline: Human Rights Conventions )〕 the Vienna conference was only the second global conference to focus exclusively on human rights, with the first having been the International Conference on Human Rights held in Teheran, Iran, during April–May 1968 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Proclamation of Teheran, Final Act of the International Conference on Human Rights, Teheran, 22 April to 13 May 1968 )〕 The Vienna conference came at a time when world conferences were popular, with the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development having been held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, and the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, soon following in September 1994.〔 More conferences would follow after that, including the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, Denmark, in March 1995 and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in September 1995. Such conferences were seen as a way to promote global participation, consultation, and policy formation, and were seen as a likely significant new way to influence the direction of international society.〔 The notion of having a world conference on human rights was first proposed in 1989.〔 The end of the Cold War brought about the hope that the long stalemate and distortion of United Nations behaviors due to the bipolar superpower confrontation would cease.〔 In the run-up to the 1993 conference, much of the optimism of the 1989 era was lost.〔 Preparatory conferences were held in Geneva, Switzerland, beginning in 1991, as were a number of regional and satellite meetings.〔〔 These struggled to produce new ideas that countries could agree upon, and highlighted differences surrounding the role of state sovereignty, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and whether new or strengthened human rights instruments for the UN were feasible and impartial.〔 The United Nations General Assembly was eventually forced to decide upon the conference's agenda in 1992.〔〔 Pierre Sané, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, was concerned that conference might represent a backwards step for human rights.〔 He added, "It's not surprising that governments are not overenthusiastic. After all, they are the ones violating human rights."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Conference on Human Rights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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