Human rights

/ˌhjuːmən ˈɹaɪtz/

Synonyms for "human rights" (18 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (4)

Adjective(3 words)
basic rightscivil-rightsconstitutional law of iceland
bill of rights

Strong matches (5)

Adjective(4 words)
fundamental rightsguaranteed rightslegal rightsmoral
natural right

Related words (9)

Adjective(8 words)
natural rightsrights advocacyrights defenserights protectionrights-basedrights-centeredrights-focusedstatutory rights

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

11 entries
activityeffortentitlementethical descriptorethical termlawful rightmoral conceptmoral termnormative adjectivenormative descriptorright

More specific

17 entries
advocacy campaignsawareness campaignsclassroom activitiescurriculum modulesfreedom of expressionhuman-rights lawhuman-rights policyhuman-rights protectionslegal aidmonitoring bodiesprivacy rightsright to educationright to liferight to privacyrights educationrights-based education

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Collocations

12 entries
defend human rightshuman rights lawhuman rights violationhuman-rights abuseshuman-rights educationhuman-rights frameworkhuman-rights lawhuman-rights protectionshuman-rights treatyrespect human rightsrights based approachuniversal human rights

Inflections

2 entries
more human-rightsmost human-rights

Derivations

3 entries
human-rights centeredhuman-rights orientedrights-based

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

This trampler upon human rights is — Fashion. Strange that mankind should love a despotism, And while they kick against one kind of rule, Should uncomplainingly endure another,[…]

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We should not facilely judge China by the American standard of democracy, but its current human rights violations are beyond the pale. At the same time, we should not suspend our relationship because of the human rights issue. If we had always refused to deal with leaders who violated human rights, there would have been no opening to China in 1972.

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Another issue important to my district is human rights, specifically what is happening in China. My district includes San Francisco's famous Chinatown, and many of my constituents were deeply concerned—as was I—when the Chinese government began to crack down on protesters who were demonstrating peacefully in Beijing and throughout China. Huge demonstrations led to the Tiananmen Square massacre, where more than two thousand people who had dared to speak out against the government were killed and many more injured. The massacre was followed by even more suppression and imprisonment of protesters.

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A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law.

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