At the United Nations World Summit in 2005, member nations agreed to a doctrine called the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P.
But the Scottish government has said the bill does not go far enough and called for further responsibility to be devolved.
In Canada a close cousin of EPR called Extended Product Responsibility directs a shared responsibility between the manufacturer and the government to recycle.
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Tata prides itself above all on its culture, which it argues is defined by three things: loyalty, dignity and what is now called corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), this legislation would essentially set requirements for companies to collect and recycle a certain percentage of the packaging waste they generate, but would leave how they go about doing it up to the companies themselves.
Congress' watchdog agency, the General Accounting Office, called for consolidating government responsibility for food safety under one agency.
For his part, Newt Gingrich has called for more personal responsibility.
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He condemned the violence and called on parents to take responsibility for their children's actions.
Mr Klaus is a bumptious free-market populist with nationalist inclinations who scoffed openly at Mr Havel's sermons on civic responsibility and once called him the most elitist person he had ever met.
In his stirring inaugural address President Barack Obama called for a new era of responsibility.
Mr Taylor also called for families to take greater responsibility for "guiding" their children.
Instead, it will likely be attached to a Senate bill called the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009.
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Were it to call its members to a higher standard of responsibility with a complementary column called, say, "The Armed Bonehead, " it would reach millions more people than either Mr. Farago or TrainMeAZ.
But the committee called for a clearer picture of who has responsibility in such an event.
Scottish Labour called on the first minister to "take responsibility" for the figures.
Last year, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entrusted Rose Gottemoeller with responsibility for negotiating the so-called "New START" Treaty with the Russians.
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He called on the International Cricket Council to take responsibility for the policing of corruption from national cricket boards, who were under too much pressure to punish corrupt players.
But recently as the dean of a management school, I found myself called to answer in one area of social responsibility: the environmental sustainability of our own operations.
Francis called on "all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life" to be protectors of creation.
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In addition to environmental responsibility, I discovered an interesting initiative called the Apple Distinguished Educators (ADE) program that recognizes K-12 and higher education pioneers who are using a variety of Apple products to transform teaching and learning.
The study also comes as government and private insurers emphasize the importance and need for primary care doctors like internists through so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that take responsibility for keeping patients out of the hospital and emergency room and helps patients manage their conditions by getting them to take their medications appropriately and coming back for needed appointments.
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On the Albanian side, a shadowy group called the Albanian National Army (ANA) has claimed responsibility for some recent killings of Slav-Macedonian troops.
Owners such as Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft have called on concessions such as the players accepting more financial responsibility for new stadiums being built, which the owners say will generate more revenues that will trickle down to the players.
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The landers, which were the responsibility of Langley, were developed by a company called Martin Marietta.
After Prime Minister David Cameron had opened a wide-ranging Commons debate on public confidence in the media and the police on 20 July 2011, Mr Miliband declared that the "integrity, responsibility and accountability" of UK institutions had been called into question.
Shortly after making that statement, the group's spokesman called CNN back and retracted it, saying the group now denies responsibility.
Ms Baillie called for Health Secretaty Alex Neil to intervene, take control and take responsibility for the health board.
It called on the government "as sole shareholder, to take on its responsibility for the deficit and engage with all the stakeholders to resolve this matter immediately following conference".
Last April the federal government transferred responsibility for welfare payments from the provinces to a new national body called the South African Social Security Agency.
He called the situation unacceptable and said that the government had introduced legal powers placing responsibility on councils to provide kinship carers with the right help and assistance.
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