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English
Etymology
From human right + -s (suffix forming plural nouns and pluralia tantum).
Pronunciation
Noun
human rights pl (plural only)
- (international law) The set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:We should not facilely judge China by the American standard of democracy, but its current human rights violations are beyond the pale. At the same time, we should not suspend our relationship because of the human rights issue. If we had always refused to deal with leaders who violated human rights, there would have been no opening to China in 1972.
2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 92:Another issue important to my district is human rights, specifically what is happening in China. My district includes San Francisco's famous Chinatown, and many of my constituents were deeply concerned—as was I—when the Chinese government began to crack down on protesters who were demonstrating peacefully in Beijing and throughout China. Huge demonstrations led to the Tiananmen Square massacre, where more than two thousand people who had dared to speak out against the government were killed and many more injured. The massacre was followed by even more suppression and imprisonment of protesters.
2011 June 3, David Kravets, “U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right”, in Wired, →ISSN:A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law.
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Coordinate terms
Translations
set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed
- Afrikaans: menseregte pl
- Albanian: drejtat e njeriut f pl
- Amharic: ሰብአዊ መብቶች ? (säbʾäwi mäbtoč)
- Arabic: حُقُوق إِنْسَان m pl (ḥuqūq ʔinsān)
- Armenian: մարդու իրավունքներ (hy) pl (mardu iravunkʻner)
- Asturian: derechos humanos m pl
- Azerbaijani: insan hüquqları pl
- Belarusian: пра́ва чалаве́ка n (práva čalavjéka), правы́ чалаве́ка n pl (pravý čalavjéka)
- Bulgarian: права́ на чове́ка n pl (pravá na čovéka), чове́шки права́ n pl (čovéški pravá)
- Burmese: လူ့အခွင့်အရေး (lu.a.hkwang.a.re:)
- Catalan: drets humans m pl
- Chechen: адаман бакъонаш pl (adaman baqʼonaš)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 人權/人权 (jan4 kyun4)
- Hokkien: 人權/人权 (zh-min-nan) (jîn-kôan)
- Mandarin: 人權/人权 (zh) (rénquán)
- Corsican: diretti umani m pl, diritti umani m pl
- Czech: lidská práva (cs) n pl
- Danish: menneskerettighederne c pl
- Dutch: rechten van de mens (nl) n pl, mensenrechten (nl) n pl
- Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: homaj rajtoj
- Estonian: inimõigused pl
- Faroese: mannarættindi n pl
- Finnish: ihmisoikeudet (fi) pl
- French: droits humains (fr) m pl, droits de la personne (fr) m pl, droits de l’homme (fr) m pl
- Galician: dereitos humanos m pl
- Georgian: ადამიანის უფლებები pl (adamianis uplebebi)
- German: Menschenrechte (de) n pl
- Greek: ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα n pl (anthrópina dikaiómata)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: pono o ka lāhui kanaka
- Hebrew: זְכוּת אָדָם f (z'khút adám)
- Hindi: मानव अधिकार m (mānav adhikār), इंसानी हक़ m (insānī haq), इंसानी हुक़ूक़ m pl (insānī huqūq)
- Hungarian: emberi jogok (hu)
- Icelandic: mannréttindi n pl
- Indonesian: hak asasi manusia (id)
- Irish: cearta daonna m pl, cearta an duine m pl
- Italian: diritti umani (it) m pl
- Japanese: 人権 (ja) (じんけん, jinken)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: адам құқықтары pl (adam qūqyqtary)
- Khmer: សិទ្ធិមនុស្ស (sətthiʼ mɔnuh)
- Korean: 인권(人權) (ko) (in'gwon)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: مافی مرۆڤ (ckb) (mafî mrov)
- Northern Kurdish: mafên mirovan (ku)
- Kyrgyz: адам укуктары pl (adam ukuktarı)
- Latvian: cilvēktiesības f pl
- Lithuanian: žmogaus teisės f pl
- Macedonian: човекови права n pl (čovekovi prava)
- Malay: hak asasi, hak-hak kemanusiaan
- Malayalam: മനുഷ്യാവകാശം (manuṣyāvakāśaṁ)
- Maltese: drittijiet umani pl
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хүний эрх (mn) (xünii erx)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠮᠦᠨ ᠦ
ᠡᠷᠬᠡ (kümün-ü erke)
- Norman: drouaits d'l'houmme m pl (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: menneskerettigheter m or f
- Occitan: dreches umans m pl, drechs umans m pl
- Odia: ମାନବିକ ଅଧିକାର (manôbikô ôdhikarô)
- Pashto: وګړنيز حقوق
- Persian:
- Dari: حُقُوقِ بَشَر (huqūq-i bašar)
- Iranian Persian: حُقوقِ بَشَر (hoğuğ-e bašar)
- Polish: prawa człowieka (pl) n pl
- Portuguese: direitos humanos (pt) m pl
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਇਨਸਾਨੀ ਹੱਕ m (inasānī hakka), ਮਨੁੱਖੀ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ m (manukkhī adhikār)
- Romanian: drepturile omului n pl
- Russian: пра́во челове́ка n (právo čelovéka), права́ челове́ка (ru) n pl (pravá čelovéka)
- Scottish Gaelic: còraichean daonna m pl
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: људска права n pl
- Roman: ljudska prava n pl
- Slovak: ľudské práva n pl
- Slovene: človekove pravice f pl
- Spanish: derechos humanos (es) m pl, DD. HH. (es) m pl
- Swahili: haki za kibinadamu (sw), haki za binadamu
- Swedish: mänskliga rättigheter c pl
- Tagalog: karapatang pantao (tl)
- Tajik: ҳуқуқҳои инсон (huquqhoyi inson), ҳуқуқи инсон (huquqi inson), ҳуқуқи башар (huquqi bašar)
- Tamil: மனித உரிமைகள் (maṉita urimaikaḷ)
- Telugu: మానవ హక్కులు (mānava hakkulu)
- Thai: สิทธิมนุษยชน (th) (sìt-tí-má-nút-sà-yá-chon)
- Tibetan: འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་ཐང ('gro ba mi'i thob thang)
- Turkish: insan hakları (tr) pl
- Turkmen: ynsan hukuklary pl
- Ukrainian: пра́во люди́ни n (právo ljudýny), права́ люди́ни n pl (pravá ljudýny)
- Urdu: اِنْسانی حُقُوق m pl (insānī huqūq)
- Uyghur: ئىنسان ھوقۇقى (insan hoquqi), كىشىلىك ھوقۇق (kishilik hoquq), ئىنسانىي ھوقۇق (insaniy hoquq)
- Uzbek: inson huquqlari pl
- Vietnamese: nhân quyền (vi) (人權), quyền con người
- Walloon: abondroets del djin m pl, abondroets des djins m pl
- Welsh: hawliau dynol m pl
- Wolof: please add this translation if you can
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: מענטשן רעכט n (mentshn rekht)
- Yoruba: ẹ̀tọ́ ọmọnìyàn
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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Translations to be checked
Noun
human rights
- plural of human right
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