# 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

## 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