THE CONFERENCE.
2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993. The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action on Human Rights adopted at the World Conference was a milestone for the protection and promotion of human rights: among other things, it reaffirmed the universality of human rights, confirmed the realisation of human rights as a primary goal of the United Nations and a legitimate concern of the international community, emphasised the importance of women's human rights and created in the light of these goals the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Since 1993, considerable progress has been made in implementing the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. However, despite some achievements, international human rights protection remains challenging: global developments such as climate change, digitalisation, demographic changes, growing mistrust of state and international institutions and, last but not least, continued attacks on the universality of human rights require a critical reflection thirty years after the Vienna Conference on Human Rights as well as a scientific outlook into the future.
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Therefore, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights and the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria hosted the 'UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna 1993 – Strengthening Imperatives 30 Years After' from Wednesday 27 September to Friday 29 September 2023.
The international expert conference was dedicated to the developments since the World Conference on Human Rights. The conference focused on the interdisciplinary discussion of the achievements since the World Conference, current challenges, and the future of international human rights protection.
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR)
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The LBI-GMR is Austria’s biggest human rights research institution which was founded in 1992 under the umbrella of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft. The institute is affiliated with the University of Vienna and it’s work is focused on human rights research on the national, European and the international level. The institute is engaged in basic, as well as applied research, it actively pursues multidimensional and interdisciplinary pathways towards human rights issues and promotes human rights research also within the university. In light of the inseparable relation between standards and their implementation, it is our objective to offer a link between academic research and practitioners by following a translational research concept. In addition, the institute strives to reach out and provide its human rights expertise to a broader public through academic publications, teaching, training and workshops, as well as exhibitions and social events.
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Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law Faculty, University of Vienna
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The Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna is the oldest and largest law faculty in the German-speaking world. Law has been researched and taught here for over six centuries. Today, more than 10,000 students are supervised by about 600 staff members. Law is at home here – from the fundamentals of law to its application in daily practice, it is the subject of our research and teaching. The Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna covers public law in research and teaching. Its focal points include state organisation law, fundamental and human rights, general administrative law, public procedural law, public commercial law and medical law.
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Organiser: Professor Dr. Michael Lysander Fremuth
University Professor for Fundamental and Human Rights at the University of Vienna
Scientific Director of the postgraduate program 'Human Rights' at the University of Vienna
Scientific Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna
Team: Andreas Sauermoser
University Assistant, University of Vienna
Doctoral Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Program Manager 'Human Rights & International Criminal Law'
at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
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Konstantina Stavrou
University Assistant, University of Vienna
Doctoral Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Researcher for the program 'Human Rights & International Criminal Law' at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
Miriam Soldan
University Assistant, University of Vienna
Researcher for the programme line 'General Human Rights Issues' at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights
