The Berlin Wall had fallen in November 1989 and, despite the outbreak of new conflicts in the Balkans and elsewhere, the end of the Cold War gave a new impetus to the concepts of freedom, democracy and human rights that carried us through the Vienna Conference. Many believed there was a risk that the fundamental rights laid down in 1948 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, might be rolled back. I was among them, and remember vividly how most of us at the time worried about the likelihood of real progress in the protection of human rights. Twenty years ago, in June 1993, more than 7,000 participants gathered in Vienna for the World Conference on Human Rights. President and President of the General Assembly,ĭistinguished Members of the Human Rights Council,Īllow me first of all to congratulate His Excellency, Remigiusz Henczel, who is presiding over his first meeting of the Council as President, at the start of what is an historically significant year for the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, for the Human Rights Council, and indeed for the global human rights movement as a whole. * For this meaning, the adjective can precede or follow the noun.Mr.
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