Individual duties to the community were discussed throughout the various drafting stages of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Its final incorporation into the UDHR through Article 29(1), indicates the conceptual consensus of the international community onthis issue at that time. We found that representative philosophical theories of the East and the West, and world's major religious cultures emphasize on individual duties to the community.Legal provisions in trans-regional legal sources follow suit. Article 29(1) the UDHR, though indirectly, continues to exert important normative influences on domestic constitutions and human rights instruments. The recognition of individual duties to the community as protected under Article 29(1) clearly demonstrate the cross-cultural nature of the UDHR. Therefore, an integral understanding of the UDHR requires further exploration of the value of this provision.
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