Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private...

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals...

Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and...

Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations...

voted and held political office, but as time went on Blacks were increasingly deprived of civil rights, often under the racist Jim Crow laws, and African...

and social rights and civil and political rights in the declaration. Capitalist states tended to place strong emphasis on civil and political rights (such...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor...

The Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) (Arabic: جمعية الحقوق المدنية والسياسية في السعودية, romanized: Jamʻīyat al-Ḥuqūq al-Madanīyah...

rights, sometimes called "blue rights", deal essentially with liberty and participation in political life. They are fundamentally civil and political...

numerous ways, including a wide spectrum of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Rights tend to be of two general types: those advocating...