The Duties to Respect, Protect, and Fulfill
Channel: Insight Human Rights
Date: 08/05/2017

Sorry for the Moiré pattern! I'll make sure to not wear that shirt again. (And not to give myself a haircut again)

Today I'm getting into one of the most important points of human rights: the types of obligations they impose. There are three major kinds of obligations, a.k.a. the tripartite typology: duties to respect, protect, and fulfill. This division is unique to human rights and part of what gives human rights so much of its power over traditional civil rights.

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