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“UNESCO works to ensure that women and men equal enjoy the right to access, participate in and contribute to cultural life. The International Cultural Conventions promote the inclusion of all community members in their implementation, enabling women and men to benefit equally from heritage and creativity”.

The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action was adopted by consensus at the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993 in Vienna, Austria. This Declaration together with the World Conference is considered a landmark document for the promotion and protection of human rights.

From 22 to 23 May 2018, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the City of Vienna and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights organised a High Level Expert Conference in Vienna to encourage States and other stakeholders to pursue further legal, institutional and practical improvements of human rights protection, both domestically and internationally.

This conference brought together human rights stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, including Ms Saniye Gülser Corat, UNESCO’s Director for Gender Equality, who participated in the Working Group on Promotion of Equality in our Societies. While noting how progress in gender equality is stalling if not deteriorating in many parts of the world, Ms Corat discussed with experts how to address and prevent the further aggravation of inequalities along the trajectories of not only gender but ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, religious, political, social or other status. She highlighted UNESCO’s unique and holistic contribution in overcoming such setbacks and presented examples of substantial progress especially focusing on gender equality.

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https://en.unesco.org/news/vienna25-building-trust-making-human-rights-reality-all