Translation Spanish: Which OBLIGATION?

All human rights impose the threelevels of state obligations ??? respect, protect and fulfill ??? which includeboth negative and positive obligations. The negative obligation (the obligation to respect) requires governmentsto refrain from harming the human rights of individuals.  From a policy monitoring perspective, thisrequires refraining from implementing policies or programs that wouldnegatively affect people???s rights e.g. avoiding development projects that wouldresult in forced eviction.  Theobligation to protect requires governments to protect their citizens or people intheir territories from the negative actions of non-state actors (such ascorporations).  The positive obligation(the obligation to fulfill) requires governments to take positive actions (whetherlegislative, administrative, judicial, budgetary or other) to create theconditions necessary to improve the realization of human rights over time.  This table shows on which type of obligation each methodology focuses.