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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the World Conference of Human Rights in 1993 and the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA), an international high-level expert conference took place in Vienna on 27-28 June 2013. The conference gathered some 200 experts from all parts of the world, who on the one hand reaffirmed the key achievements of the VDPA, such as the universality and indivisibility, as well as the legitimacy of the international protection of human rights; on the other hand the experts addressed on the basis of these accomplishments current and future challenges to the international human rights system. The discussions at this meeting focused - in three expert working groups, as well as in various high-level public panels - on the following thematic areas: Strengthening the rule of law, realising the human rights of women universally, and the preparation of a human rights-based approach for the post-2015 development agenda. The conference resulted in action-oriented recommendations to States and other actors, which were presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council as well as the General Assembly in autumn 2013.
Contents
Table of Contents Manfred NOWAK, Fiona STEINERT and Hannes TRETTER Preface ... 3 Julia KOZMA, Anna MULLER-FUNK and Manfred NOWAK Introduction ... 7 Abbreviations ... 17 20 Years after Vienna: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives Michael SPINDELEGGER Opening Address at the High Level Opening ... 23 Navi PILLAY Opening Address at the High Level Opening ... 27 Tawakkol KARMAN High Level Opening Statement ... 31 Salil SHETTY High Level Opening Statement ... 33 Ludmilla ALEXEEVA High Level Opening Statement ... 37 Jan ELIASSON Concluding Remarks at the High Level Opening ... 41 The Legacy of the Vienna World Conference John SHATTUCK High Level Panel Statement ... 47 Table of Contents Adama DIENG High Level Panel Statement ... 51 Charlotte BUNCH High Level Panel Statement ... 55 Mark THOMSON High Level Panel Statement ... 63 Dzidek KEDZIA High Level Panel Statement ... 65 20 Years after Vienna: The Way Forward Working Group I: Strengthening the Rule of Law: The Right to an Effective Remedy for Victims of Human Rights Violations Manfred NOWAK Strengthening the Rule of Law: The Right to an Effective Remedy for Victims of Human Rights Violations ... 75 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Strengthening the Rule of Law: The Right to an Effective Remedy for Victims of Human Rights Violations ... 91 Sanji Mmasenono MONAGENG An Overview of Victim Participation and Reparations at the International Criminal Court... 95 John PACE The Evolution of the International Architecture for the Protection of Human Rights since Vienna... 101 Table of Contents Philip LYNCH Protecting Human Rights Defenders to Strengthen Human Rights and the Rule of Law ... 115 Olivier DE FROUVILLE Strengthening the Rule of Law: The Right to an Effective Remedy for Victims of Human Rights Violations ... 125 Michael O'FLAHERTY Saving and Strengthening the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body System ... 137 Martin SCHEININ The Added Value of a World Court of Human Rights ... 143 Najat MAALLA M'JID Strengthening the Rule of Law: The Right to an Effective Remedy for Victims of Human Rights Violations - The Case of Children Victims... 151 Christian SALAZAR VOLKMANN The Rationale and Importance of Monitoring and Reporting on Children's Rights During Armed Conflict... 159 Alison HANNAH Remedies for Violations of Human Rights: Violence against Children ... 167 Claudio GROSSMAN Freedom of Expression and the Rule of Law... 177 Working Group II: Realising Human Rights of Women Universally: Tackling the Implementation Gap Patricia HLADSCHIK Realising the Human Rights of Women Universally: Tackling the Implementation Gap... 185 Table of Contents Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Realising the Human Rights of Women Universally: Tackling the Implementation Gap... 199 Liesl GERNTHOLTZ Tackling the implementation gap ... 207 Safak PAVEY Main Challenge: Reconciling Tradition and Freedoms in the Next Twenty Years... 211 Gulnara SHAHINIAN Realising the Human Rights of Women Universally: Tackling the Implementation Gap - Some thoughts and observations ... 219 Salima ALFAKHRI Women Rights in Libya and Arab Spring Countries between Achievements and Challenges In View of International Conventions - The Libyan Case ... 225 Working Group III: Mainstreaming Human Rights: A Human Rights Based Approach for the Post-2015 Development Agenda Wolfgang BENEDEK and Lisa HESCHL Mainstreaming Human Rights: A Human-Right- Based Approach to the post-2015 Development Agenda ... 239 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Towards Freedom from Fear and Want: Human Rights in the Post-2015 Agenda ... 253 Rajeev MALHOTRA A Human Rights Based Approach for the Post2015 Development Agenda... 257 Table of Contents Shannon KINDORNAY Mainstreaming the Human Rights Based Approach into the Post-2015 Framework... 261 Siobhan McINERNEY-LANKFORD Human Rights and Development - A Review of the Legal and Policy Frameworks on the 20th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action... 275 Stephen P. MARKS Prospects for Human Rights in the Post-2015 Development Agenda... 291 Aldo CALIARI Human Rights and Economic Policy: Making the Link in the Post-2015 Development Agenda ... 307 Katja BRATRSCHOVSKY, Mayra GOMEZ, Claudio SCHUFTAN and Martin WOLPOLD-BOSIEN Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda ... 315 Shulamith KOENIG Imposed Ignorance is a Human Rights Violation ... 339 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Division of International Protection UNHCR, Human Rights Mainstreaming and the Post-2015 Agenda ... 353 Vienna+20: Towards a Human Rights for Agenda for the 21st Century Remigiusz A. HENCZEL Concluding Plenary Statement ... 363 Mabedle Lawrence MUSHWANA Concluding Plenary Statement ... 367 Table of Contents Morten KJAeRUM Concluding Plenary Statement ... 371 Navi PILLAY Concluding Plenary Statement ... 373 Annex Annex 1 Vienna+20: Advancing the Protection of Human Rights - Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives 20 Years after the World Conference ... 379 Annex 2 Rolf KUNNEMANN Recommendations resulting from the Civil Society Conference: Human Rights in Times of Crises, Strengthening the Global Human Rights Movement ... 393 Annex 3 The Vienna+20 CSO Declaration, adopted in Vienna on 26 June 2013 ... 395 Annex 4 COST Action IS0702 The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform ... 419 Annex 5 Conference Programme... 437 Annex 6 List of Participants ... 441NER(01): WOW
