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- DictionaryHu·man Rights Act
- 1. (in the UK) an Act of Parliament by which the European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into UK law. It came into effect in 2000.
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Inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled
Human rights are moral principles, or norms, for certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as substantive rights in substantive law, municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent in all human beings", regardless of th... Wikipedia