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 (rights to use digital resources)
 * 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
History of human rights
 * 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

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 against humanity
 * Crime of apartheid
 * Genocide
 * Slavery
 * Torture
 * War crimes

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

 * 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