The road to a “Declaration of Human Responsibilities”

For the second IAC experts' meeting in Vienna, 1987, Hans Küng with the agreement of Helmut Schmidt drafted a “Declaration of Human Responsibilities”. This text follows the style and language of the UN Declaration of Human Rights from 1948; but its content closely follows the 1993 Global Ethic Declaration of Chicago.
 

After months of discussion, the Declaration was officially adopted by the IAC in August 1997. On 1 September 1997, the text was published and forwarded to the UN General Secretary Kofi Annan and was sent to national governments around the world.
 

As Mahatma Gandhi put it in 1948, a declaration of human responsibilities is intended to make people aware that a democratic society can, in the long run, only function, when each individual fully acknowledges that, alongside his/her rights, he or she has responsibilities for the state, for society and for his/her fellow human beings.


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Global Ethic
and Politics

Human Rights
and Human Responsibilities
 
HUMAN
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Ethical Standards
• Global Agenda
• Declaration
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