Outline of rights
Overview of and topical guide to rights
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to rights:
Rights – normative principles, variously construed as legal, social, or moral freedoms or entitlements.
Theoretical distinctions
- Natural and legal rights
- Natural law
- Positive law
- Social rights
- Social contract
- Claim rights and liberty rights
- Claim
- Entitlement
- Liberty
- Freedom
- Negative and positive rights
- Individual rights
- Group rights
Other divisions
- Three generations of human rights
- Civil and political rights and Economic, social and cultural rights
By claimant
Exclusive rights
Other types
- Digital rights (rights to use digital resources)
- Labor rights
- Linguistic rights
- Reproductive rights
- Right to arms
- Disability rights
- Marital rights
- Prisoners' rights
- Right to life
- Right to die
- Divine Right of Kings
- Unenumerated rights
- Equal rights
- Fundamental rights
- Right to vote
- Political freedom
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of movement
- Freedom of religion
- Freedom of speech
- Freedom of the press
- Freedom of thought
- Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, which is related to freedom of privacy
- Suffrage
- Scientific freedom
- Academic freedom
- Habeas corpus
- International law
- By religion
History
Related concepts
Movements
- Animal liberation movement
- Carers rights movement
- Children's rights movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Disability rights movement
- LGBT social movements
- Fathers' rights movement
- Parents' rights movement
- Women's rights movement
Crimes against humanity
Notable people
Lists
- List of civil rights leaders
- List of disability rights activists
- List of LGBT rights activists
- List of opponents of slavery
- List of suffragists and suffragettes
- List of women's rights activists
Individuals
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrei Sakharov
- Coretta Scott King
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elie Wiesel
- Jimmy Carter
- Margaret Sanger
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Nelson Mandela
- Raoul Wallenberg
- Stephen Biko
- John Locke
- Confucius
- Voltaire
- Montesquieu
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Thomas Paine
- John Calvin
See also
Law portal
Political science portal
External links
Rights at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)(1948); United Nations General Assembly.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; article by Leif Wenar.
- WikiEd - Teacher's Rights
- International Freedom of Expression Exchange
- Comparative Analysis of Human Rights
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