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What are civil rights?

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Question added by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India
Date Posted: 2014/11/19
Divyesh Patel
by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town

Civil rights mean equal treatment for all without discrimination based on gender, race, age, disability, religion, sexuality and nationality.

Sidrah Nadeem
by Sidrah Nadeem , Global Marketing Manager , Hill+Knowlton Strategies

An enforceable right or privilege.

padmakumar pathiyil
by padmakumar pathiyil , Marketing Consultant , Management Consultancy

Civil rights are the rights of individuals to receive equal treatment in a number of ways that includes education, employment, housing, and more and based on certain legally-protected characteristics. Historically, the "Civil Rights Movement" referred to efforts toward achieving true equality for African-Americans in all facets of society, but today the term "Civil rights" is also used to describe the advancement of equality for all people regardless of race, sex, age, disability, national origin, religion, or certain other characteristics.

Abdul Naseer Mohammed Jawadh Sharif
by Abdul Naseer Mohammed Jawadh Sharif , Senior Accountant , Aqua Ocean Aquarium and Consultant

A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary servitude; and the right to equality in public places. Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of their membership in a particular group or class. Various jurisdictions have enacted statutes to prevent discrimination based on a person's race, sex, religion, age, previous condition of servitude, physical limitation, national origin, and in some instances sexual orientation.

LABIB KOOLI
by LABIB KOOLI , Director of the Sectoral Center for Training in Hotel Technologies at Southern Hammamet , Tunisian Vocational Training Agency (ATFP)

Constitution and laws that guarantee fundamental freedoms to all individuals. 

These freedoms include the rights of free expression and action; the right to enter into contacts, own property, and initiate lawsuits; the rights of due process and equal protection of the laws ; opportunities in education and work; the freedom to live, travel, and use public facilities wherever one chooses; and the right to participate in the democratic political system.

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN
by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.

Equality of Rights in  general by birth of a Mankind in the society as a Human being and Citizen of a Country.

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

Personal rights acquired by an individual by being a citizen or resident, or automatic entitlements to certain freedoms conferred by law or custom. Certain civil rights (such as the right to equality, freedom, good governance, justice, and due process of law) are inalienable like human rights and natural rights, whereas others (such as the right to hold a public office) depend on one's conduct and can be lost. Also called civil liberties.

 

Santosh Kumar Jangid Santosh
by Santosh Kumar Jangid Santosh , Area Sales Manager , SP Techno Solution Pvt Ltd

Democracy...Where everyone is free & equal ...

 

Abdulelah Fallatah
by Abdulelah Fallatah , Tech-Support Specialist & Programmer , Al-Rayan Colleges

They are the rights that stay the same regardless of the time but these rights are valid in an area of Earth. If you exit that area, then these civil rights will be invalid and you might (or might not) have a different set of civil rights in the new area.

 

So, if you, for example, exited Germany, the German civil rights will not be valid outside it.

 

NOTE: This area of Earth can be a city, village, state, province, country...etc but not places such as companies, supermarkets etc because companies, supermarkets will be part of the city, village, state, province, country etc and therefore the civil rights will be valid there.

Is to get the equity in the same socity

MALIIK SOHAIL ABBAS
by MALIIK SOHAIL ABBAS , ACCOUNTS MANAGER , AL RAWDAH GREEN SWEET WATER

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals, and which ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the society and state without discrimination or repression.

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