human right
(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) • Topics: law, jurisprudence • Hypernyms: right • Hyponyms: right to privacy, right to life, right to liberty, right to the pursuit of happiness, freedom of thought, equality before the law, civil right
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