rights infringement
Crossing protected boundaries
Rights infringement is the violation or encroachment upon someone's legally or morally protected entitlements.
The phrase appears most often in legal and political contexts: The policy constitutes a clear infringement of privacy rights.
Copyright holders pursue rights infringement claims against unauthorized use of their work.
Civil liberties advocates warn against government actions that amount to rights infringement.
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- cruel and unusualExcessively harsh and abnormal
- unlawful detentionIllegal restraint of freedom
- fair trialImpartial judicial proceeding
- harassmentAggressive, unwanted targeting
privacy violation · intellectual property · discrimination · negligence · forced displacement · slavery · political persecution · wrongful conviction · child labor · genocide · coercion · habeas corpus · gender-based violence · police brutality · search and seizure · censorship · war crimes · labor exploitation
rights infringementlegal compliance
Following applicable laws
compliance · lawfulness · conformity · observance · rule-following
rights infringementconstitutional protection
Right guaranteed by law
human rights advocacy · due process · enfranchisement · empowerment
rights infringementempowerment
Gaining authority or confidence
remediation · redress · justice · liberation · restitution
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