Social rights
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Social rights are human rights that ensure to all people some specified standard of living, without discrimination (the phrase "fair standard of living" is sometimes used, but as "fair" means merely "consistent with rules, or ethics", and so is a circular definition).
These standards may include the right to an education, healthcare, or the right to employment. Anti-discrimination acts have often secured these rights for politically weaker groups.
The theory of three generations of human rights considers social rights to be "second-generation rights", and the theory of negative and positive rights considers them to be "positive rights".
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