civil rights violations
Freedoms illegally denied
Civil rights violations are actions—usually by governments or institutions—that infringe on the legal protections guaranteed to individuals, such as freedom of speech, equal treatment, or due process.
The term most often appears in contexts involving discrimination, police misconduct, or denial of voting rights: The Department of Justice investigated civil rights violations in the police department.
A single incident is a civil rights violation.
- racial profilingLaw enforcement by skin color
- stop and friskPolice search without arrest
- police brutalityUnjustified force by officers
- forced sterilizationInvoluntary surgical infertility
- family separationKin kept apart
hate speech · free speech · mass incarceration · Jim Crow laws · unlawful detention · cruel and unusual · redlining · gender discrimination · voter suppression · tokenism · environmental racism · stereotyping · religious persecution · censorship · workplace harassment · segregation policies · ageism · disability discrimination
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- federal crimesbank robbery, kidnapping, counterfeiting, tax fraud, wire fraud
- racial injusticesystemic racism, institutional racism, racial profiling, racial bias, discrimination
- government tortssovereign immunity, qualified immunity, absolute immunity, color of law, liability claims
- police misconductpolice brutality, excessive force, brutality, misconduct, abuse of power
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
civil rights violationsconstitutional protections
Rights guaranteed by supreme law
due process · legal safeguards · habeas corpus · judicial oversight · civil liberties
civil rights violationscivil rights
Guaranteed individual legal protections
human rights · equal rights · social justice · civil liberties · equality
civil rights violationscivil rights activism
Campaigning for legal equality
civility, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization, civics, rights, rightful, rightfully