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

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 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

• 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