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Relation Between Rights and Duties! 1. Rights and Duties Always Go Together

The document discusses the relationship between rights and duties in three key points: 1) Rights and duties are interrelated and cannot be separated - for every right there is a corresponding duty. Exercising one's rights must not interfere with the rights of others. 2) A person's rights imply duties for others to respect those rights, and for the person themselves to recognize similar rights in others. 3) Citizens have both rights granted by the state as well as duties to obey laws, pay taxes, and support the state in return for it protecting their rights. Rights and duties are two sides of the same coin that regulate individual behavior and social values.

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Relation Between Rights and Duties! 1. Rights and Duties Always Go Together

The document discusses the relationship between rights and duties in three key points: 1) Rights and duties are interrelated and cannot be separated - for every right there is a corresponding duty. Exercising one's rights must not interfere with the rights of others. 2) A person's rights imply duties for others to respect those rights, and for the person themselves to recognize similar rights in others. 3) Citizens have both rights granted by the state as well as duties to obey laws, pay taxes, and support the state in return for it protecting their rights. Rights and duties are two sides of the same coin that regulate individual behavior and social values.

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Relation between Rights and Duties

Relation between Rights and Duties!


1. Rights and Duties always go together:
Rights and duties are closely related and cannot be separated from one
another. Both go side by side. These are the two sides of the same coin.
If the state gives the right to life to a citizen, it also imposes an
obligation on him to not to expose his life to dangers, as well as to
respect the life of others. If I have a right to work and earn, it is also
my duty to recognize the same right of others.

2. Right of One is the Duty of Others:


Rights can be enjoyed only in the world of duties. For every right there
is corresponding duty. When the people fail to discharge their duties
properly, the rights all become meaningless. “I can enjoy my rights
only if the others allow me to do the same. I have” the right to life and
it is the duty of others to respect my life and not to cause any harm to
me.”

3. Rights of a Citizen also implies Duties for him:


Rights are not the monopoly of a single individual. Everybody gets
these equally. This means that “others also have the same rights which
I have, and it is my duty to see that others also enjoy their rights.”
Laski has rightly said that one man’s right is also his duty. It is my
duty to respect the rights of others as well as the duty to use my rights
in the interest of society.
4. Rights are to be used for Social Good:
Rights originate in society. Therefore, while enjoying rights, we must
always try to promote social interest. It is the duty of every one of us to
use our rights for promoting the welfare of the society as a whole.

5. Duty towards the State:


Since state protects and enforces rights, it also becomes the duty of all
citizens to be loyal to the state. It is their duty to obey the laws of the
state and to pay taxes honestly. Citizens should always be ready to
defend the state. Thus a citizen has both Rights and Duties. He enjoys
rights and performs his duties. Rights and Duties are the two sides of
the same coin.

 Inter Relationship between Rights and Duties


The two phrases `rights' and `duties' co-exist with each other. In other words, the rights and
duties are two sides of the same coin, to regulate the values and behavioral patterns of an
individual. On one side, rights are important in developing the human personality and behavior.
The duties on the other hand, direct the individuals importance of their contribution for the
promotion of social good. In a way duty targets at the realization of rights guaranteed by various
laws and regulations both nationally and internationally. The same philosophy applies to states
also to discharge their duties towards their citizens. The increasing number of violations by
states in protecting the rights of the individuals across the World has led the United Nations and
other organs of the world community including the civil

According to Prof Harold J. Laski the inter relationship between rights and a duties are as
follows:

(a) One's right implies the other's duty.


This means every right of an individual automatically impose a duty on others. For example,
the right to freedom to move freely or privacy impose a duty on others not to interfere with
the right of movement or privacy of any body, except regulated by law.

(b) One's right implies one's duty to recognise similar rights of others.
This implies that every exercise of right is subject to restrictions. For example, one has
freedom of speech and expression. However, at the same time, everyone has to bear in
mind that the exercise of free speech and expression in no way affects the rights of others
or their life, liberty or dignity of others.

(c) One should exercise his rights for the promotion of social good.
If any person tries to misuse the rights, which affect the rights of others or of the society or
state, the Government has a duty to take appropriate legal action to prevent such acts. For
example, if a person tries to abuse his right to freedom of speech and expression by
indulging in spreading wrong aspects about a section of people or of a particular religion,
the state can take legal action. Any such action by the state is justified.

(d) As the State guarantees and protects the rights of everybody, one has
a duty to support the State.
State being a nucleus organ need to take care of the social and legal interests of all the
individuals. It is normally expected by everyone as stated above, to support the state in all
its legal endeavors. The above discussion in this unit clearly brings out the significance and
the types of rights that individuals possess in a society. It also focuses on the importance of
duties and the inter-relationship that exist between the two. Rights have different
meanings. However, in the eyes of law they are

Q. 2)

Human rights and media, both being the most discussed spheres of the contemporary
world, have been at the key positions of evolving and redefining the modern era. The role
of media in safeguarding and upholding human rights is well defined, but there have
been a lot o debates over the changing media scenario in the recent times and its
consequences on the human rights coverage.Now we are living in the modern
technological world. It is easy to know any type of things with in seconds through out the
world. Audions of televisions and internet users increasing day by day. It is easy to
protect human rights with the help of mass media. Mass is called as fourth estate. With
the help of mass media it is easy to motivate about human rights each state of the
citizens in the world. Our daily news papers focusing on human rights. It is true that
government of the each states in the world have take good steps to protect human rights
because of mass media. It is very important the Poets, Writers and Journalists should
take care to protect human rights through their poems, books, novels and articles.In this
paper analyses that the role of media and the protection of human rights, differences
between news and human rights organisations. Obviously, this is part of what this study
is trying to assess, but the short answer is that news organisations do not consider
human rights stories as such any more important than any others, whereas human rights
organisations do. Thus, it examines, to what extent does the media cover human rights
stories accurately and consistently? Without generalizing, one can note that media feel
they are as accurate in covering human rights stories as they are in covering most other
kinds of stories. The human rights organisations often agree that accuracy is not the
problem. The problems begin to occur rather with the matter of consistency. Both sides
(media and human rights) agree that coverage is not consistent. Will this ever change?
That is one of the questions this project is seeking to answer. To what extent are new
trends affecting quality of human rights coverage? Here the answer, so far, must be
ambivalent. There is also a sense that the “human rights message” is being diluted by
these very same trends. It described that how do other actors factor into the coverage
(governments, public relations firms, etc)? are also discussed.

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