Editing Women's rights (section)

=== Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action ===
{{Main|Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action}}
The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA) is a human rights declaration adopted by consensus at the [[World Conference on Human Rights]] on 25 June 1993 in [[Vienna]], Austria. This declaration recognizes women's rights as being protected human rights. Paragraph 18 reads:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/Vienna.aspx |title=Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action |publisher=Ohchr.org |access-date=18 July 2016}}</ref>

<blockquote>The human rights of women and of the girl-child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights. The full and equal participation of women in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life, at the national, regional and international levels, and the eradication of all forms of discrimination on grounds of sex are priority objectives of the international community.</blockquote>