Social rights

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Rights
Animal rights
Children's rights
Civil rights
Collective rights
Equal rights
Fathers' rights
Gay rights
Group rights
Human rights
Inalienable rights
Individual rights
Legal rights
Men's rights
Natural right
Negative & positive
Reproductive rights
Self-defense
Social rights
"Three generations"
Women's rights
Workers' rights
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Social rights are generally considered an obligation a society places upon itself and its citizens to ensure to all people some specified standard of living, without discrimination.

These standards may include the right to a taxpayer-funded education or healthcare. Anti-discrimination acts have often secured these rights for politically weaker groups.

Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. The theory of three generations of human rights considers social rights to be "second-generation rights", and the theory of negative and positive rights considers them to be "positive rights".