Provisional Principles to Guide Human Responsibilities
 
Responsibility is envisaged as supporting humankind towards  relational and holistic world views  manifest in unique, indigenous, and diverse cultural frameworks.

1. Responsibility for ensuring Human Rights is a basis for dignity, peace, justice with an equitable sharing of wealth.
2. To face the challenges of today and of tomorrow, joining together and unitingin action must be balanced with respect for cultural integrity and diversity.
3. Every person's dignity invovles contributing to the freedom and dignity of others.
4. Responsibility includes support for holistic qualities of human life for women and men, and includes individual and relational, material, nonmaterial and spiritual dimensions.
5. The legitimate exercise of power/authority derives from ethical and accountable decision-making to serve the common good. Informed, conscious, collective, integrated decision-making is to be provided for in all spheres, including family, citizen, community, state.
6. The harvesting of natural resources to meet human needs, must be limited by the requirements of active protection and care for ecosystems and the viability of the environment.
7. Freedom of scientific research implies being guided by ethical criteria such as enhancement of biodiversity, regard for the limitations of human knowledge, respect for all (living) things.
8. The full potential of knowledge and know-how is realised through valuing different knowledge systems and ways of knowing, sharing them and through using them in the service of solidarity and harmony.
9. Decisions about short term priorities are to be evaluated in the light of long term consequences, and are to accord with priorities of justice and inter-generational environmental stewardship, taking account of risks and uncertainties.

Further suggested principles:

• (A-NZ) Ethical governance and sustainable environmental practice includes provision for the integrated knowledge systems of indigenous peoples and local knowledge
• (A-NZ) In relations between women and men, and in all family relationships including children, the whole community shares responsibility for safety
• (Australia) Responsibility: knowing our place, feeling acknowledged, and having a set of roles and responsibilities is what makes life worthwhile.
• Responsibility is an *honour of being able to play our part in the life of the whole (A-NZ) A proposal that the exercise of power be linked to ethical decision-making.