There should be recognition of obligations, and not only rights, on the part of those who would intervene.
A Belgian elected representative noted that in theory there is a legal obligation, citing a recent parliamentary resolution as further proof of the recognition of the obligation.
In a statement issued by the German Army from Kunduz, close to where the airstrike had taken place, the Defense Ministry said the payments to a total of 102 Afghan families were being made for "humanitarian reasons" and without recognition of legal obligation.
There have been many revolutions in warfare in the past two centuries, and the emerging recognition of an obligation to dead and missing soldiers and their families is one of the least visible.
We generate practicable metric that assesses de facto IC authority according to a conjunctive standard — the recognition of an obligation to comply with IC rulings, and the engagement in meaningful actions that push toward giving full effect to IC rulings.
Support is growing for formal recognition of the obligation of governments to establish laws and policies to promote access to fully adequate pain management [ 87].
This dual recognition of professional obligations and patients' rights has fostered awareness in the commission's (JCAHO) statements and standards that organizations have an obligation to act to support and respect patients' rights [ 35].
98 of the Laws of 1879, for that act was one in the nature of an offer to compromise, although it does contain a recognition of outstanding obligations.
But in other cases, the recognition of R2P obligations has motivated a range of countries, not only the US, to step in to prevent mass killing and egregious human rights violations in places like Burma, Libya, the Ivory Coast, and Mali.
In some cases attempts have been made to amend laws in recognition of IHR obligations and pandemic planning, without addressing the outdated science and jurisprudence that underlay old legislation, resulting in an inaccessible collection of uncoordinated and unconsolidated laws.
But Mr. Morrissey said that law was unlikely to be invoked because "there's a general recognition of the moral obligation" of the church to compensate victims more substantially.
