Equal rights

Equal rights may refer to:

Philosophy and law

• Equality before the law, when all people have the same rights
• Equal Justice Under Law (civil rights organization)
• Human rights, when such rights are held in common by all people
• Civil rights, when such rights are held in common by all citizens of a nation
• Rights guaranteed under gender equality, proposed variously:
  • by the women's rights movement growing out of women's suffrage
  • by the men's rights movement growing out of the men's movement
• Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that intended to advance such a condition for women's rights
• Law of equal liberty, a moral principle described by Herbert Spencer

Other uses

• Equal Rights (album), a 1977 reggae release by Peter Tosh
• Equal Rights (journal), a 1920s feminist journal; see Mildred Seydell
• Equal Rights Beyond Borders, a charitable organisation which assists towards the legal rights of refugees
• Equal Rights (motto), the motto of the state of Wyoming, USA

See also

• Equal Rights Party (disambiguation)
• Equality (disambiguation)
• Social equality
• Equal Rites, a novel by Terry Pratchett