Humans have rights {natural rights}| as persons. Rights allow actions or benefits, such as health, education, opportunity, life, and happiness.
dignity
Rights are about people's interests, as persons, and so are about dignity.
types
Rights can be claims, immunities, freedoms, and authorizations. Claims are rights of people against other people. Duties are what people owe to other people. Immunities cancel duties and claims. Freedoms, such as freedoms of speech, religion, and association, concern only individuals, unless they conflict with others' freedoms. Authorizations are grants to act, for situations where there are no rights or rights are not clear.
summary
Human rights include freedom and opportunity to engage in businesses, associations, or activities that do not abridge others' rights. They include safe and nutritious food. They include safe, clean, and well-designed shelter. They include clean water. They include adequate sanitation. They include clean air. They include public health measures, personal health maintenance, prescription drugs, rehabilitation, mental health care, dental care, and eye care. They include complete and equal educational opportunities. They include equal and quick justice. They include equal employment opportunity. They include association with others for pleasure, business, or other purposes. They include freedom of travel. They include access to all public information channels. They include freedom of residence. They include freedom from crimes against people. They include freedom from interference in private life. They include religious freedom. They include habeas corpus.
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