Outline of rights
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
- 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
- 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 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
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
- * Calvinism
- ** Five Points of Calvinism
Accused limitators
- Karl Marx
- * Marxism
- Friedrich Engels
- Joseph Stalin
- * Stalinism
- Vladimir Lenin
- * Leninism
- Leon Trotsky
- * Trotskyism
- Mao Zedong
- * Maoism
- Rosa Luxemburg
- * Luxemburgism
- Josip Broz Tito
- * Titoism
- Fidel Castro
- * Castroism
- Che Guevara
- * Guevarism
- Enver Hoxha
- * Hoxhaism
- Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il
- * Juche