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Noun: human right
  1. (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)

Derived forms: human rights

Type of: right

Encyclopedia: Human right

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