Abstract

Chapter 1 describes how individual duties are currently incorporated into international human rights law, and recounts the progress of the political movements to incorporate more extensive individual and corporate duties into the system, including the universal individual duties and the corporate duties movements. It then proposes a typology of duties that could be incorporated into the international system of human rights law, comprising five categories: duties toward other individuals, duties toward groups, duties toward humankind as a whole, duties toward oneself, and ecological duties. Chapter 1 critiques the major arguments for the incorporation of some such duties into IHRL.