Human responsibilities

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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 be[citation needed], perhaps the most well known being those proposed[1] by the InterAction Council[2], 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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  1. ^ A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITIES, proposed by the InterAction Council, 1 September 1997. Retrieved on April 09, 2007
  2. ^ [1]. Retrieved on April 08, 2007.