collective rights
Shared community protections
Collective rights are entitlements belonging to groups rather than individuals—rights held by communities, peoples, or organizations as a whole.
Indigenous peoples may have collective rights to ancestral lands.
Workers may have collective bargaining rights through unions.
The concept contrasts with individual rights, raising questions about when group identity warrants special legal protection: The treaty recognized the collective rights of the tribal nation.
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- Roman lawAncient Italy's legal system
- group identityShared sense of belonging
- sustainable developmentMeeting needs without exhausting resources
- traditional knowledgeCommunity wisdom across generations
communal ownership · shared ownership · labor unions · minority representation · social contract · sacred rituals · oral histories · cultural heritage · tribal sovereignty · participatory democracy · village council · collective bargaining · constitutional protections · grassroots movements · peoples · common good · commons · protection
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- rightscivil liberties, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees, fundamental freedoms
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, fair trial
- indigenous rightsnative sovereignty, indigenous sovereignty, traditional territories, land title, native lands
- music rightsmusic copyright, copyright, music royalties, music licensing, music publisher
collective rightsindividual rights
Freedoms held by persons
personal rights · individual liberties · individual freedoms · private rights · personal freedoms
collective rightsindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
libertarianism · classical liberalism · atomism · personal autonomy · laissez-faire