Topic outline of rights

A right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing something, or to obtain or refrain from obtaining an action, thing or recognition in civil society. Rights serve as rules of interaction between people, and, as such, they place constraints and obligations upon the actions of individuals or groups (for example, if one has a right to life, this means that others do not have the liberty to kill him).

Most modern conceptions of rights are universalist and egalitarian — in other words, equal rights are granted to all people. There are two main modern conceptions of rights: on the one hand, the idea of natural rights holds that there is a certain list of rights enshrined in nature that cannot be legitimately modified by any human power. On the other hand, the idea of legal rights holds that rights are human constructs, created by society, enforced by governments and subject to change.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to rights:

The basis of rights

: "Main articles: Liberty and Right"

* Entitlement
* Law, legal rights, and civil liberties
* Ethics, moral code, human rights, and natural rights
* Power, politics, and respect

Types of rights

* Animal rights
* Children's rights
**List of children's rights topics
* Civil liberties
* Civil rights
* Disability rights
* Divine Right of Kings
* Equal rights
* Fetal rights
* Gay rights
* Group rights
* Human rights
* Individual rights
* International law
* Labor rights
* Laws of war
* Legal rights
* LGBT rights
* Liberties
* Marital rights
* Natural rights
* Prisoners' rights
** Prisoner of war
* Property rights
* Reproductive rights
* Right to life
* Right to die
* Women's rights
* Workers' rights
* Youth rights
** List of youth rights topics

History of rights

: "Main article: History of human rights"
*Magna Carta
*Women's suffrage

Basic rights-related concepts

Rights 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

* Genocide
* Torture
* War crimes

Leaders in human rights

* Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Coretta Scott King
* Nelson Mandela
* Mohandas Gandhi
* Stephen Biko
* Andrei Sakharov
* Elie Wiesel
* Eleanor Roosevelt
* Raoul Wallenberg
* Margaret Sanger
* Mikhail Gorbachev
* Jimmy Carter

Human Rights lists

: "Main article: List of rights-related topics"

See also

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