Citizenship and Responsibilities

• Citizenship: the status of a person of being a part of a country with all its rights, privileges and duties
• Rights: the privileges of someone according to moral or legal entitlement to have or do something
• Responsibilities: the duty one has to answer to some obligations or to behave correctly in certain situations
• Civil Society: the collective name given to organisations and associations that are not part of the government
• Non-governmental organisations (NGOs): people grouping themselves in an organisation to fulfil duties in society that the government is not meeting
• Community based organisations (CBOs): people forming volunteer based groups to provide services at a local level