Education is a basic human right, and denying it to women and girls is unacceptable.
Marriage is a basic human right and must be defended against religious monopolization.
Free speech is a basic human right, and an essential tool for a functioning democracy.
Health care is a basic human right and an essential service well within the scope of government to provide.
Housing should be a basic human right, and the state should accept that homelessness shames us all.
But right now, communities are asking for security; the most basic human right and a necessity for addressing other problems.
Access to clean water and adequate sanitation is considered a basic human right and is recognised as such by the United Nations.
But besides offering a basic human right and dignity, it provides a stability and resilience that help India withstand these internal strains.
Healthcare, like shelter and food, is a basic human right, and it is the way that we help those who arrive on our shores with nothing that is the benchmark of our civilisation.
Mr. Chen said on Saturday that holding a referendum on Taiwan's independence was a "basic human right" and that, in reality, there was "one country on each side" of the Taiwan Strait.
And 10 countries, geographically far-flung and ethnically, socially and religiously diverse, have acknowledged that marriage is a basic human right and will allow same-sex couples to marry.
