human rights

Also known as human right

inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled

OverviewAI-generated

Human rights are a convention, social movement, and academic discipline that is part of international law. The subject is partially coincident with civil liberties, civil rights, and civil and political rights. It is practiced by human rights defenders and studied by social philosophy and philosophical anthropology. The foundational text is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, while the main regulatory text is the European Convention on Human Rights.

The topic includes the right to life and is described by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It appears in the Commons category "Human rights" and has the main category Category:Human rights. The subject is on the focus list of Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Art+Feminism, WikiProject Human rights, and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4. It is referenced by 10,884 other encyclopedia articles and has a social media following of 13756.

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Research

192,713 papers

Human rights in the context of transhumanist medicine: ethical and legal aspects.ReviewWiadomosci lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960) · 2024Fridmanskyy RM, Badyda AY, Pifko OO et al.DOI: 10.36740/WLek/195164
Human rights education for nursing students: A scoping review.Nursing ethics · 2025Dogan EIK, Terragni L, Raustøl ADOI: 10.1177/09697330241284096
Decriminalization of abortion - A human rights imperative.ReviewBest practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology · 2020Erdman JN, Cook RJDOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2019.05.004
Dignity neuroscience: universal rights are rooted in human brain science.ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2021White TL, Gonsalves MADOI: 10.1111/nyas.14670
Human rights education in patient care: A literature review and critical discussion.ReviewNursing ethics · 2021Newham R, Hewison A, Graves J et al.DOI: 10.1177/0969733020921512
Human rights in childbirth, narratives and restorative justice: a review.ReviewReproductive health · 2017Lokugamage AU, Pathberiya SDDOI: 10.1186/s12978-016-0264-3
Human Rights Law and the Defence of Mental Impairment.ReviewJournal of law and medicine · 2022McSherry B, Simon-Butler A
Human rights and health: challenges for training nurses in South Africa.ReviewCurationis · 2008London L, Baldwin-Ragaven LDOI: 10.4102/curationis.v31i1.898

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: academic discipline
Subclass of: convention
Part of: international law
Image: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789.jpg

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Commons category: Human rights
topic's main category: Category:Human rights
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Human rights
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
WordLift URL: data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/human_rights
practiced by: human rights defender
described by source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
topic has template: Template:Human rights
hashtag: StandUp4HumanRights
social media followers: 13756
partially coincident with: civil and political rights
foundational text: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
main regulatory text: European Convention on Human Rights
Wikimedia import URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
studied by: philosophical anthropology

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Encyclopedic overview

Magna Carta or "Great Charter" was one of the world's first documents containing commitments by a sovereign to his people to respect certain legal rights.

Human rights are universally recognized moral principles or norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both national and international laws. These rights are considered inherent and inalienable, meaning they belong to every individual simply by virtue of being human, regardless of characteristics like nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, caste, or socioeconomic status. They encompass a broad range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, such as the right to life, freedom of speech, protection against enslavement, and right to education.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human rights” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.