Some philosophers distinguish two types of rights, natural rights and legal rights. Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs...

argued that humans have a natural right to life. These are sometimes called moral rights or inalienable rights. Legal rights, in contrast, are based on...

due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the...

Natural-rights libertarianism is the theory that all individuals possess certain natural or moral rights, mainly a right of individual sovereignty and...

used are: implied rights, natural rights, background rights, and fundamental rights. Unenumerated rights may become enumerated rights if they necessitate...

forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights, which first appeared as part of the medieval natural law tradition and developed in new...

Rights of nature or Earth rights is a legal and jurisprudential theory that describes inherent rights as associated with ecosystems and species, similar...

Individual rights, also known as natural rights, are rights held by individuals by virtue of being human. Some theists believe individual rights are bestowed...

Age of Enlightenment. Ideas of natural rights, which had a basis in natural law, lay at the core of the American and French Revolutions which occurred...

Conceptions, As Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays (1919). Liberty rights and claim rights are the inverse of one another: a person has...

women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts...

Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal...

Constitution, in 1873. Civil and political rights Civil liberties in the United Kingdom First Charter of Virginia Natural and legal rights Parliament in the Making...

Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world. The World...

Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers. These rights are codified...

regional human rights instruments. Member states have a legal obligation to respect, protect and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights and are expected...

not legally binding, the contents of the UDHR have been elaborated and incorporated into subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments...

justification for this doctrine, from a policy standpoint, is the notion of natural rights and the idea that every individual should have a right to control how...

abolish the legal minimum ages at which such rights are acquired, such as the age of majority and the voting age. Codified youth rights constitute one...

Digital rights are those human rights and legal rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers...

World War II, the legal principles were incorporated in the UN Charter and a host of international human rights treaties. Minority rights, as applying to...

Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded...

positive law, and government—and thus legal rights—in the form of classical republicanism. John Locke was a key Enlightenment-era proponent of natural law, stressing...

Victims' rights are legal rights afforded to victims of crime. These may include the right to restitution, the right to a victims' advocate, the right...

corporations are assigned rights, so should natural objects such as trees. Citing the broadening of rights of blacks, Jews, women, and fetuses as examples,...

the court was enabled by a small tax which paid for legal aides. The issue of indigenous rights is also associated with other levels of human struggle...

Linguistic rights include, among others, the right to one's own language in legal, administrative and judicial acts, language education, and media in a...

to economic and social development Right to a healthy environment Right to natural resources Right to communicate and communication rights Right to participation...

Fetal rights (alternatively prenatal rights) are the moral rights or legal rights of the human fetus under natural and civil law. The term fetal rights came...

Children's Rights Movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgment, expansion, and/or regression of the rights of children...