Vienna has a population of over 1.7 million people, with 49% having a migration background and 21% lacking Austrian citizenship. The city has implemented numerous initiatives to become a more equitable human rights city, including establishing a Women's Office in 1992, passing an Equal Treatment Act in 1996, and creating a Department of Integration and Diversity in 2004. Vienna adopted a human rights approach beginning in 1993 and officially began efforts to build a human rights city in 2013 through analysis, allocating resources, political and legal statements, and stakeholder engagement. The goal is to develop a new political culture based on human rights.

1. Vienna
The Making Process of a Human Rights
City
Shams Asadi

2. Population 1.765.649 (1.1.2014)
21% without A- Citizenship, 2/3 non-EU
31% born out of A.
49% Migration Background
19.3% (0-19)
63.9% (20-64)
16.8% (65+)
Surface 419.9 K2
49% Green& Blue
City and Federal province in one
Facts& Data

3. • Until 1910 Melting Pot& Migrant City (+ 2. Mio)
• I.WW 1914-1918: the first Austrian Republic
• 1930 Austrofascism
• II.WW (1941-45)
• Shrinking City
• 1989 Fall of the Iron Curtain (Reunification of EU)
• 1995 EU-Accession
…and the Present
Rapid Growing City
The most prosperous City in the World 2013 UN-Study
1. Position in the WW “Quality of Living” since 2009
Historical Background

4. HR Principal
•Empowerment/Emancipation
•Equality/Non-Discrimination
•Participation/Inclusion
•Accountability
HR Scopes Arts, Culture, Public Spaces,
Housing, Health, Security & Education
HR Initiatives
•Government Program (2010-2015)
•„Vienna Charter of cohabitation“ (2012)
•Urban Development Plans
•Lokale Agenda 21 Plus
Human Rights Approach since UN World Conference (1993)

5. An Equitable City
•Women´s Office (1992)
•Vienna Integration Fund (1992)
•Vienna Equal Treatment Act (1996)
•Vienna Anti-Discrimination Agency for LGTB (1998)
•Department of Integration and Diversity (2004)
•Anti-Discrimination Act& Independent body to combat
discrimination (2004)
•Law to promote equal opportunities f. people with disabilities (2010)

6. Vienna: Human Rights City
Starting since 2013…
•Analysis
•Allocation of Resources
Building of an HR City
•Political& legal Statement
•Institutional Anchoring
•Stakeholder & Community Based Dialog
•Establishment of a HR Culture
Develop a new political culture based on human rights. Nelson Mandela

7. Shams ASADI
0043 1 4000 38952
shams.asadi@wien.gv.at