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...

Natural-rights libertarianism (also known as deontological liberalism, deontological libertarianism, libertarian moralism, natural rights-based libertarianism...

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...

and racial equality. The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval natural law...

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

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...

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...

Group Rights in International Law. Groups as Contested Right-Holders, Subjects and Legal Persons. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights Library...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (including native title), language, religion, and other elements...

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...

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,...

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...

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

the legal minimum ages at which such rights are acquired, such as the age of majority and the voting age.[citation needed] Codified youth rights constitute...

Sieyès. Influenced by the doctrine of natural right, human rights are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place. It became the basis for...

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

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...

the legal protection of individual property rights. A right to property is specified in Article 17 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but...