Even if a juridical basis for extraterritorial application is established, the question of
positive obligations must still be resolved.
Does Pogge want to deny that we have stringent
positive obligations to infants, to the starving, and to the disabled?
The book's essays address the significance of public discourse, civic education, and the question whether society should impose
positive obligations upon citizens to help others in emergencies.
So over to Rhodri Morgan's administration - will they address their '
positive obligations' to ensure Welsh authorities respect human rights?
Positive obligations do not run with the land, in the same way that negative restrictions do.
The aim of the Directive is to lay down standard EU-wide criteria for determining whether a commercial practice is unfair, although without imposing any
positive obligations on traders to show that they are trading fairly.
7 may be interpreted to include
positive obligations. I leave open the possibility that a
positive obligation to sustain life, liberty, or security of the person may be made out in special circumstances." (28)
There may in addition be
positive obligations inherent in an effective 'respect' for family life.
The reformers rejected the emerging society of voluntary contract, where
positive obligations were self-imposed, in favor of a model of community consisting of unchosen
positive obligations to care for citizens who are unable or unwilling to care for themselves.
Emphasize journalists'
positive obligations (not a list of don'ts).
The European Court of Human Rights has accepted that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) not only gives rise to so-called negative obligations requiring states to refrain from directly committing human rights violations, but also so-called
positive obligations to take steps to secure individuals the effective enjoyment of their human rights.
This question does not regard the intrinsic impossibility: even tensions implicate rights and
positive obligations, which cannot be declared by the court.
