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x Women's rights Wollstonecraft-right-of-woman     Women's suffrage
The term women's rights refers to freedoms and entitlements of women and girls of all ages. These rights may or may not be institutionalized, ignored or suppressed by law, local custom, and behavior in a particular society. These liberties are...
Reproductive rights
x Women's suffrage The argument over women's rights in Victoria was lampooned in this Melbourne Punch cartoon of 1887 Exhibition subject Women's rights  
The term women's suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The movement's modern origins lie in France in the 18th century. Of currently existing independent countries,...
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x Reproductive rights     Women's rights Birth control
Reproductive rights are rights relating to reproduction and reproductive health. The World Health Organisation defines reproductive rights as follows: "Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to...
Pro-choice
x Birth control A family planning facility in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia Quotation Subject Reproductive rights  
Birth control, sometimes synonymous with contraception, is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth. "Contraception" may refer...
x Pro-choice Roevwade   Reproductive rights  
Pro-choice describes the political and ethical view that a woman should have complete control over her fertility and the choice to continue or terminate a pregnancy. This entails the guarantee of reproductive rights, which includes access to sexual...
x Apartheid          
x Sustainability NASA Earth flag      
Sustainability, in a general sense, is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state indefinitely. The concept of sustainability applies to all aspects of life on Earth and is commonly defined within ecological, social and economic contexts....
x Environmentalism Earth Website Category   Climate change
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. Environmentalism can also be defined as a social movement which seeks to influence the political process by...
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x Human rights Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Charitable field   Children's rights
Human rights refers to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which are often thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of...
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x Climate change Vostok-ice-core-petit Film subject Environmentalism Green energy
Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” of a region or the earth as a whole. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average...
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x Free software Free software badge Industry    
Free software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure...
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x Open content        
Open content, a neologism coined by analogy with "open source", describes any kind of creative work published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or...
x Open standard        
An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it. The terms "open" and "standard" have a wide range of meanings associated with their usage. The term "open" is usually restricted to royalty...
x LGBT rights Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs Proposition Issue   Transgender rights
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender social movements share related goals of social acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have a long history of campaigning for what is...
Same-sex marriage
x Temperance Temperantia, by Luca Giordano      
Temperance (Sophrosyne in Greek) is the practice of moderation. It was one of the four "cardinal" virtues held to be vital to society in Hellenic culture. It is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues considered central to Christian behaviour by the...
x Freedom of speech A public protest against limits on the size of demonstrations in Central Park, New York City Legal subject Civil liberties  
Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship or limitation. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes used to denote not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or...
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x Civil liberties Li-ber-ty Issue   Freedom of speech
Civil liberties are freedoms that protect the individual from the government. Civil liberties set limits for government so that it cannot abuse its power and interfere with the lives of its citizens. Common civil liberties include the rights of...
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x Nonviolence   Quotation Subject    
Nonviolence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of physical violence. As such, nonviolence is an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression and armed struggle against it. Practitioners of nonviolence may use...
x Anti-racism   Book Subject    
Anti-racism includes beliefs, actions, movements, and policies adopted or developed to oppose racism. In general, anti-racism is intended to promote an egalitarian society in which people do not face discrimination on the basis of their race,...
x Consumer rights          
x Children's rights A boy working as a "clock boy" on the streets of Merida, Mexico.   Human rights  
Children's rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to the young, including their right to association with both biological parents, human identity as well as the basic...
x Civil rights President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among the guests behind him is Martin Luther King, Jr Quotation Subject    
Civil and political rights are a class of rights ensuring things such as the protection of peoples' physical integrity; procedural fairness in law; protection from discrimination based on gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc; individual...
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x Veterans' rights          
x Labor rights        
Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law. In general, these rights' debates have to do...
x Fathers' rights        
The Fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. Though it has been described as a social movement,...
x Holocaust denial Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard  Harwood (also known as Richard Verrall)      
Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II—usually referred to as the Holocaust—did not occur in the manner or to the extent described by current scholarship. Key elements of this claim are the rejection of any of...
x Cannabis Macro cannabis bud Drug    
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or marihuana, or ganja (from Hindi/Sanskrit: गांजा gānjā, hemp), is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp. indica. The herbal form of the drug consists of...
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x Animal rights A man in Shanghai asks for money, holding a monkey with a rope around its neck and missing a limb. Proposition Issue    
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings. Animal rights advocates approach the issue from different...
x Transgender rights     LGBT rights    
x Same-sex marriage Weddinginholland Campaign issues LGBT rights  
Same-sex marriage is a term for a legally or socially recognized marriage between two people of the same sex. "Same-sex marriage" and "gay marriage" are the most common terms used in news media and politics though more loaded synonyms are also...
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x Anti-globalization        
"Anti-globalization" is a term that encompasses a number of related ideas. What is shared is that participants stand in opposition to the unregulated political power of large, multi-national corporations, and the powers exercised through trade...
x Anti-capitalism An anti-capitalist poster printed by the Industrial Workers of the World in 1911      
Anti-capitalism describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism. Anti-capitalists, in the strict sense of the word, are those who wish to completely replace capitalism with another system; however, there are also...
x Prison abolition movement        
The prison abolition movement seeks to abolish prison and the prison system which advocates of the movement claim are inhumane. Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the modern Western criminal justice system, alleged to be both racist...
x Green energy