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Vienna declaration and programme of action on human rights. We, the ministers responsible for higher education in the countries participating in the bologna process, met in budapest and vienna on march 11 and 12, 2010 to launch the european higher education area ehea, as envisaged in the bologna declaration of 1999. Vienna declaration and programme of action listed as vdpa. On 9 october 1993, the heads of state or government of the member states of the council of europe, meeting in vienna, adopt a declaration which confirms the organisations paneuropean vocation and sets out new political. The vienna declaration and programme of action adopted 25 june. The npe, 1986 bas the distinction of giving an opera tional meaning to concurrency. When we all met in vienna for the united nations world conference on human rights in the summer of 1993, there was a high level of curiosity exploring the new international agenda after the end of the cold war. Between june 14 and 25, 1993, 7,000 participants comprised of 171 delegations from united nations member states and several international governmental. Vienna declaration on nutrition and noncommunicable. The vienna declaration states that every individual has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, expression and religion, and that nongovernmental organizations should be free to carry out their human rights activities, without. United nations political declaration on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2011, in particular, the who global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 202020, endorsed by the 66th world health assembly, and the 8th who global conference on health promotion in helsinki. The importance of the vdpa in renewing and strengthening efforts to respect, protect and.
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