English noun: human right | |||
1. | human right (attribute) (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | right | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | civil right, equality before the law, freedom of thought, right to liberty, right to life, right to privacy, right to the pursuit of happiness | ||
Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||