denial of rights
Withholding legal protections
Denial of rights is the act of withholding or refusing someone their entitled freedoms or protections—legal, civil, or human.
The phrase appears in legal and political contexts: The court found a denial of rights under the Fourth Amendment.
It can be deliberate policy or systemic neglect: Voter suppression amounts to a denial of rights.
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- injusticeDenial of fair treatment
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- disenfranchisementRemoval of voting rights
- voter suppressionTactics discouraging ballot access
suppression · marginalization · persecution · inequality · silencing · exclusion · violation · deprivation · censorship · segregation · tyranny · subjugation · voiceless · powerless · stripped · barred · forbidden · protest
- LGBTQ discriminationhomophobia, transphobia, biphobia, hate crimes, prejudice
- elder abuseelder neglect, elder fraud, senior neglect, nursing home abuse, caregiver abuse
denial of rightsenfranchisement
Granting citizenship rights
empowerment · liberation · emancipation · freedom · self-determination
denial of rightsequal treatment
Uniform handling regardless of identity
equality · equal protection · non-discrimination · equity · fairness
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