Community rights and responsibilities: Communities also have rights and responsibilities, both to the members of the community and other communities that they are a part of. An empowered community understands these relationships and how these relationships impact on the community, and other communities that are a part of it. Rights: ... the right to its own identity ... the right to set its own agenda, constitution and institutions ... the right to participate within the wider community ... the right to access skills and resources within the wider community ... the right to support its members within the wider community ... the right to protect its members from influences that disadvantage its members ... the right to refuse entry to members that do not fit into the community ... the right to evict members that do not accept the agenda, constitution and institutions of the community ... the right to refuse skills and resources to the wider community, where its members are disadvantaged ... the right to determine its own destiny Responsibilities: ... to ensure the agenda, constitution and institutions of the community, protect and support its members, as well as other communities and their members ... to provide a safe, secure environment for its members, as well as other communities and their members ... to facilitate the development of valued roles and relationships for the community, its members, as well as other communities and their members ... to ensure that the community communicates with its members as well as other communities and their members ... to ensure the community does not disadvantage other communities or their members ... to responsibility use, and share, skills and resources to the advantage of its members, as well as other communities and their members ... to respect, protect and promote the rights, cultures and institutions of other communities and their members ... to engage with other communities in an interdependent relationship
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:20:06 +0000
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