Human responsibilities

Human responsibilities

Human Responsibilities refers to universal responsibilities of human beings regardless of jurisdiction or other factors, such as ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sex.

The idea of human responsibilities arises as a natural counter-balance to the philosophical idea of human rights. Several groups and individuals have suggested what exactly these responsibilities might befact|date=April 2007, perhaps the most well known being those proposed [ [http://www.interactioncouncil.org/udhr/udhr.html A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITIES] , proposed by the InterAction Council, 1 September 1997. Retrieved on April 09, 2007] by the InterAction Council [http://www.interactioncouncil.org/] . Retrieved on April 08, 2007.] , an international council of former heads of state, in 1997 partly to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

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