Taking Duties Seriously: Individual Duties in International Human Rights Law

Notions of individual duties and responsibilities have recently attracted increasing attention. Calls have been made for a "global ethic" that would set minimum standards to guide human behaviour. Though ndividual duties and human rights are closely related, it is sometimes argued that an unbalanced focus on human rights needs to be corrected.

This short publication aims to contribute to this debate by collating and organising in a readable way the various references to notions of individual duties and responsibilities in international human rights standards.

"The issues are critically and dispassionately analysed with specific reference to international and regional human rights standards... invaluable to both scholars and activists." Neelam Tiruchelvam