A human right can be understood as a legal entitlement to specific freedoms, protections, and privileges that all humans have the right to enjoy and exercise without discrimination, limitation, or impediment. It is a concept that is deeply entrenched in an international framework of legal principles and agreements. In this vein, human rights are universal, fundamental, and inherent to all human beings as guiding ideals of justice and fairness. By virtue of belonging to the human race, these entitlements are seen as inalienable and irrevocable.

See also: citizenship education, indigenous people, economic justice, global south