Editing Rights (section)

===Politics===
[[File:Man being arrested.jpg|thumb|right|alt=three police officers surround a man in a tee shirt who is handcuffed|Police officers in the United States are required to read the [[Miranda warning]] between making an arrest and beginning an interrogation. The warning informs the person arrested that they have rights included in the Fifth Amendment. Failure to "read Miranda" disqualifies evidence obtained primarily in the questioning.]] 
Rights are often included in the foundational questions that governments and politics have been designed to deal with. Often the development of these socio-political institutions have formed a dialectical relationship with rights.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Rights about particular issues, or the rights of particular groups, are often areas of special concern. Often these concerns arise when rights come into conflict with other legal or moral issues, sometimes even other rights. Issues of concern have historically included [[Indigenous rights]], [[labor rights]], [[LGBT social movements|LGBTQ rights]], [[reproductive rights]], [[disability rights]], [[patient rights]] and [[prisoners' rights]]. With increasing [[mass surveillance|monitoring]] and the information society, [[digital rights|information rights]], such as the [[right to privacy]] are becoming more important.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Some examples of groups whose rights are of particular concern include [[animal rights|animals]],<ref name=tws21decghnnb>{{cite magazine
|author = Kate Pickert
|title = Undercover Animal-Rights Investigator
|quote = One of the most powerful tools animal-rights activists have is the video footage shot inside places like poorly run dog kennels, animal-testing facilities and factory farms, used as grim evidence of the brutality that can take place. But how do animal-rights crusaders actually get those videos?
|magazine = Time Magazine
|date = Mar 9, 2009
|url = http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1883742,00.html
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090310160825/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1883742,00.html
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = March 10, 2009
|access-date = 2009-12-21
}}</ref> and amongst [[human rights|humans]], groups such as [[children's rights|children]]<ref name=tws21decfsxsxd>{{cite news
|author = Victoria Burnett
|title = Human Rights Watch says migrant children are at risk in Canary Islands
|quote = "They must immediately come up with a plan to close these centers," Simone Troller, author of the report and a children's rights researcher for Human Rights Watch in Europe, said in a telephone interview. "While these centers continue to exist, we believe children continue to be at risk."
|newspaper = The New York Times
|date = July 26, 2007
|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/world/europe/26iht-abuse.4.6849724.html
|url-access=subscription
|access-date = 2009-12-21
}}</ref> and [[youth rights|youth]], [[Parents' rights movement|parents]] (both [[mothers' rights|mothers]] and [[fathers' rights movement|fathers]]), and [[men's rights|men]] and [[women's rights|women]].<ref name="tws21decfe4522">{{cite news |date=October 21, 2009 |title=Soap Operas Boost Rights, Global Economist Says |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113870313 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225211516/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113870313 |archive-date=Dec 25, 2009 |access-date=2009-12-21 |work=Morning Edition |publisher=NPR |quote=Many of these locally produced programs feature strong female characters. When Rede Globo began broadcasting in its native Brazil in 1965 the average woman had about six children — now the average woman has no children or one child.}}</ref>

Accordingly, [[politics]] plays an important role in developing or recognizing the above rights, and the discussion about which behaviors are included as "rights" is an ongoing political topic of importance. The concept of rights varies with political orientation. Positive rights such as a "right to medical care" are emphasized more often by left-leaning thinkers, while right-leaning thinkers place more emphasis on negative rights such as the "right to a fair trial".{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Further, the term ''equality'' which is often bound up with the meaning of "rights" often depends on one's political orientation. [[Conservatism|Conservatives]] and right-wing [[Libertarianism|libertarians]] and advocates of [[free markets]] often identify equality with [[equality of opportunity]], and want what they perceive as equal and fair rules in the process of making things, while agreeing that sometimes these fair rules lead to unequal outcomes. In contrast, [[socialism|socialists]] see the power imbalance of employer-employee relationships in capitalism as a cause of inequality and often see unequal outcomes as a hindrance to equality of opportunity. They tend to identify [[equality of outcome]] as a sign of equality and therefore think that people have a right to portions of necessities such as [[health care]] or [[Welfare spending|economic assistance]] or [[House|housing]] that align with their needs.<ref name="tws21dece563e">{{cite news |author=Roemer |first=John E. |author-link=John Roemer |date=December 14, 2005 |title=Roemer on equality of opportunity |url=http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2005/12/roemer_on_equal.html |access-date=2009-12-21 |work=[[New Economist]] |publisher=New Economist |type=Blog |quote=Equality of opportunity is to be contrasted with equality of outcome. While advocacy of the latter has been traditionally associated with a left-wing political philosophy, the former has been championed by right-wing political philosophy. Equality of outcome fails to hold individuals responsible for imprudent actions that may, absent redress, reduce the values of the outcomes they enjoy, or for wise actions that would raise the value of the outcomes above the levels of others'. Equality of opportunity, in contrast, 'levels the playing field,' so that all have the potential to achieve the same outcomes; whether or not, in the event, they do, depends upon individual choice.}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=A blog post is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=February 2024}}