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 Animal rights Human rights Men's rights Fathers' rights Women's rights Mothers' rights Children's rights List of children's rights topics Youth rights List of youth rights topics Fetal rights Student rights Indigenous rights Minority rights LGBT rights
Exclusive rights Intellectual property rights Authors' rights Copyright Industrial design rights Patent rights Trademarks Property 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 Prisoner of war Right to life Right to die Divine Right of Kings Unenumerated rights Equal rights Fundamental rights Right to vote Right of foreigners to vote Right of expatriates to vote in their country of origin 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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Court of Justice Laws of war By religion Manusmṛti Confucianism Qur'an Ten Commandments Bushido Juche
History
History of human rights Age of Enlightenment Important bills of rights Gender or Sex segregation Women's suffrage Sex segregation and Islam Racial segregation Racial segregation in the United States Civil Rights Movement American Indian Movement Religious segregation Residential segregation
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
Crime against humanity Crime of apartheid Genocide Slavery Torture War crimes
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 Calvinism Five Points of Calvinism
See also
Ethics Outline of ethics Government Law Outline of law Political Science Rights of Man
External links
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