civil rights

English

Noun

1. (US) Those rights which are expressly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and are considered to be unquestionable, deserved by all people under all circumstances, especially without regard to race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender and disabilities.
   • 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:

     The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

Derived terms

• civil rights movement

Translations

rights deserved by all people under all circumstances

• Basque: eskubide zibilak pl
• Catalan: drets civils
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 民權 (man4kyun4)

  Mandarin: 民權／民权 (zh) (mínquán), 民权 (zh) (mínquán), 公民權／公民权 (zh) (gōngmínquán), 公民权 (zh) (gōngmínquán)

• Czech: občanská práva n pl
• Danish: borgerlige rettigheder c pl, borgerrettigheder c pl
• Dutch: burgerrechten (nl)
• Finnish: kansalaisoikeudet (fi) pl
• French: droits civiques m pl
• German: Grundrechte (de) n pl, Bürgerrechte (de) n pl
• Hawaiian: pono kīwila
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• Hungarian: polgárjog (hu), állampolgári jog
• Icelandic: borgaraleg réttindi
• Irish: cearta sibhialta m pl
• Italian: diritti civili (it)
• Japanese: 民権 (みんけん, minken), 公民権 (こうみんけん, kōminken)
• Polish: prawa obywatelskie
• Portuguese: direitos civis m pl
• Romanian: drepturi civile (ro)
• Russian: гражда́нские права́ n pl (graždánskije pravá)
• Spanish: derechos humanos (es) m pl
• Swedish: medborgerliga rättigheter c pl
• Tagalog: bayanhing karapatan

See also

• human rights
• civil liberties
• civil rights on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Human rights on Wikipedia.Wikipedia