Rights
Below are our 9 articles in the 'rights' category:
The idea of disability rights in theory is simple. Why should someone get inferior treatment or a less equal chance because they have a disability? In practice however, things are far from that ...
Equal rights is a concept which, compared to the length of human civilisation, is a new idea. For many thousands of years, people have been discriminated against, on the basis of gender, age, ...
Many people would argue that one of the places that Europe has been most successful is in the field of human rights. Europe and rights now seem to go hand in hand for many people, as our rights are ...
Human rights is a phrase we hear often on the news, a phrase we may even use often ourselves – but what does it really mean? What are human rights? Human rights are, of course, those things which ...
Minority rights can mean one of two things – one far more straightforward than the other and also far less controversial. The first definition of minority rights is applied to the rights which ...
Rights activism is a generic term which can be used to describe a whole range of activists on widely differing issues. And, just as their issues are different, so are their ways of going about ...
There are many different ways of protesting to show opposition to an idea or cause. Activists use a variety of ways to get their point across. Protesting should stay within the law, but often does ...
Animal rights encompasses a whole raft of ideas, but basically, is the term used to apply to the idea that animals, other than humans, are entitled to basic rights. These rights clearly differ from ...
The question of what are rights is a tricky one – rights are not a tangible thing which can be pinned down. And different people have different ideas of what rights are. Some people believe everyone ...
