Outline of rights
Appearance
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
- Claim rights and liberty rights
- 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
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
- 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
Proponents
- 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
Accused limitators
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Engels
- Joseph Stalin
- Vladimir Lenin
- Leon Trotsky
- Mao Zedong
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Josip Broz Tito
- Fidel Castro
- Che Guevara
- Enver Hoxha
- Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il