These individual duties, possibly added to counter claims that human rights promote excessive individualism, are owed to family, society, country, and the international community.
First, the American convention, reflecting the influence of the American Declaration, acknowledges the relationship between individual duties and individual rights.
It differs from other treaties also by detailing individual duties as well as individual rights to the family, society, the state, and the international African community.
It has been observed, for example, that virtually every society has well-established norms dealing with such matters as family organization and individual duties, sexual activity, property rights, personal welfare, truth telling, and promise keeping, but not all societies have evolved the same norms for these various aspects of human conduct.
The whole point of having an entourage is to be able to assign idiosyncratic individual duties.
So long as they understand their individual duties, it may be better if they do not understand the principles and reasons behind them.
"He saw revolutionary violence as an individual duty that was required of every Muslim.
He proclaimed from his Afghan redoubt: "To kill Americans and their allies, both civil and military, is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able".
And in cities, there is growing -- and crucial -- awareness that good health is no longer the state's problem, but an individual duty.
In February 1998, he issued the edict calling for attacks on Americans anywhere in the world, declaring it an "individual duty" for all Muslims.
Mr bin Laden's transformation of jihad, for example, from a collective to an individual duty, is a radical departure from the classical Islamic tradition.
