Part I | Brief Summary

Category D | Human Rights

Topic 21 | Human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated

Human rights instruments, beginning with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted at a World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, emphasize that human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated. Freedom of religion or belief should be understood as part of this tapestry of fundamental human rights.