rights violation
Abuse of freedoms
A rights violation is an act that infringes on someone's legal or human rights—typically by governments, institutions, or individuals in positions of power.
The term appears frequently in discussions of civil liberties, international law, and social justice: The report documented numerous rights violations by the regime.
A single incident is a rights violation; systematic patterns constitute rights violations or human rights abuses.
- police brutalityUnjustified force by officers
- cruel and unusual punishmentExcessive or barbaric penalty
- arbitrary detentionConfinement lacking legal grounds
- wrongful convictionErroneous guilty verdict
- solitary confinementIsolated imprisonment in cell
genocide · election fraud · search and seizure · wage theft · torture · slavery · gender pay gap · unlawful arrest · fair trial · disenfranchisement · voter suppression · political imprisonment · forced displacement · ethnic cleansing · racial profiling · discrimination · corruption · labor exploitation
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
- music piracypiracy, bootlegging, digital piracy, file sharing, counterfeiting
- detention rightshabeas corpus, pretrial detention, pre-trial detention, remand, detention hearing
- government tortssovereign immunity, qualified immunity, absolute immunity, color of law, liability claims
rights violationhuman rights protection
Safeguarding inherent individual freedoms
rights violationjustice
Fair treatment under law
redress · remedy · restitution · reparation · exoneration
rights, violation, right, rightly, rightful, rightfully, righteous, righteousness, righteously