social rights
Welfare-based legal guarantees
Social rights are entitlements to basic standards of living and well-being—housing, healthcare, education, employment, social security.
Distinguished from civil rights (freedoms from government interference) and political rights (participation in governance), social rights impose positive obligations on society to provide for its members: The constitution guarantees social rights including access to healthcare and education.
The term appears most often in discussions of welfare states and international human rights frameworks.
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
- employmentPaid occupation status
- anti-discrimination lawsLegislation forbidding unequal treatment
- due processGuaranteed judicial fairness
environmental justice · education access · disability accommodations · right to organize · mental health support · racial equity · safety net · income equality · cultural preservation · freedom of assembly · universal basic income · food stamps · collective bargaining · freedom of speech · workplace safety · fair wages · paid leave · housing
- rightscivil liberties, right, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, right to vote
- welfare statewelfare spending, safety net, public benefits, public assistance, welfare state
- socialist lawone-party rule, party control, state ownership, public property, expropriation
- constitutionsconstitutional amendment, constitutional reform, clause, clauses, national constitution
- Weimar RepublicWeimar Republic, Reichstag, National Assembly, emergency powers, presidential powers
social rightscivil liberties
Rights limiting government power
civil rights · political rights · natural rights · property rights · individual liberties
social rightsdisenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
social exclusion · austerity · statelessness · rightlessness
social rightslaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
rugged individualism · social Darwinism · libertarianism · neoliberalism · classical liberalism
social, society, sociable, rights, socialism, antisocial, socialist, socialize, unsocial