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Definition of Human right
1. Noun. (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).
Specialized synonyms: Right To Privacy, Right To Life, Right To Liberty, Right To The Pursuit Of Happiness, Freedom Of Thought, Equality Before The Law, Civil Right
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Definition of Human right
1. Noun. A basic right that all humans should be guaranteed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Human Right
Literary usage of Human right
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1907)
"THE SIGN LANGUAGE AND THE human right TO EXPRESSION. HAS the poet the right to sing?
has the orator the right to sway men, not only by what he says, ..."
2. Human Radiation Experiments: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"This international declaration of a human "right to an effective remedy" is
guaranteed as a fundamental right under the United States Constitution. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1866)
"... and to right reason ; and out of which almost all other errors originate.
separable therefrom of justice and human right м obscured by darkness and lost ..."
4. An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching by George Augustine Thomas O'Brien (1920)
"he asks.2 ' Is it not by human right ? For by divine right " the earth is ...
By human right, however, one says, This estate is mine, this servant is mine ..."
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