civil right
— Noun
– English
~ right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
conjugal right
— Noun
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~ the right of married persons to the enjoyment of association and sympathy and confidence and domestic happiness and the comfort of living together and eating meals at the same table and profiting from joint property right and the intimacies of domestic relations
Commission on Human Rights
— Noun
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~ the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with human rights
civil rights activist
— Noun
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~ a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
Civil Rights movement
— Noun
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~ movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
civil rights leader
— Noun
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~ a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups