Rights

During the 1900s and 1910s, suffragettes fought hard for women's suffrage, rallying to gain the right to vote. (AUDIO: The Suffering, PROSE: Human Nature, Birthright) Women did not gain the right to vote in the United Kingdom until around 1918, near the end of World War I. (AUDIO: The Jabari Countdown)
Confronted on Earth by the Ninth Doctor in 2005, the Nestene Consciousness claimed constitutional rights. The Doctor, however, dismissed this as he noted that the Nestene was waging an invasion. (TV: Rose)
By 2008, cyborgs started getting equal rights on Sto, with a law being passed allowing them to get married. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
During the Miracle Day crisis of 2011, Esther Drummond observed a rush to strip away the human rights of Category 1 patients. (TV: The Categories of Life)
Robot rights activists on Kaldor saw Kaldor androids as workers just like them, and fought for robots to be afforded the same rights as Kaldor's human population. Lina Hadway felt the robots were being exploited by the upper classes, and saw this pursuit as an extension of workers' rights. (AUDIO: Escape from Kaldor)