Volume III, Issue 2

Human Rights and Human Responsibilities: A Necessary Balance?
Mia Giacomazzi

Abstract

Co sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Interaction Council, the symposium on “Human Rights and Responsibilities” was part of the William P. Laughlin Lecture Series on Global Leadership and Ethics. The InterAction Council is an organization of former heads of state and prime ministers. They have proposed a Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities to supplement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This symposium explored the proposal of Human Responsibilities and the tension it poses to human rights.