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Right to Buy
Right to Buy: statutory scheme letting eligible English social tenants buy their home at a discount, Housing Act 1980/1985; over two million homes sold; discounts cut to £16,000–£38,000 regional caps from 21 November 2024.
Right to counsel
Right to counsel: the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a lawyer in criminal prosecutions, including court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants, established for the states by Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) after Powell v. Alabama (1932) and Betts v. Brady (1942).
Right to die
The right to die is the claimed entitlement of a competent person to decide the timing and manner of their own death, often through medical assistance in dying.
Right to education
The right to education, a human right rooted in UDHR Article 26 (1948) and elaborated by the 1960 UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education and ICESCR Articles 13-14, defined by the 4As.
Right to food
The right to food is a human right, enshrined in ICESCR Article 11 (1966) and UDHR Article 25, binding for 172 states, obliging respect, protection, and fulfillment of adequate food access.
Right to Information Act, 2005
India's Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act, No. 22 of 2005): law giving all citizens access to information held by public authorities, with 30-day (48-hour life-or-liberty) timelines, Section 8 exemptions, Information Commissions, appeals, and the 2019 and DPDP 2023 amendments.
Right to keep and bear arms
Right to keep and bear arms: the Second Amendment individual right to possess and carry firearms, defined in Heller (2008), extended by McDonald and Bruen, limited by Rahimi, and rare among national constitutions.
Right to keep and bear arms in the United States
The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is the Second Amendment individual right, defined by Heller (2008), extended to states by McDonald (2010), and tested under Bruen's 2022 history-and-tradition standard, refined by Rahimi (2024).
Right to life
Right to life: the human right not to be arbitrarily deprived of life, recognized in UDHR Article 3 and ICCPR Article 6, called the supreme non-derogable right by the UN Human Rights Committee, and central to debates on abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment.
Right to privacy
Right to privacy: legal and human right against arbitrary interference with private life, family, home, correspondence, and personal data. Rooted in Warren and Brandeis's 1890 essay, Griswold v. Connecticut, UDHR Article 12, ECHR Article 8, and the EU GDPR.
Right to property
Right to property: the legal guarantee of owning, using, and not being arbitrarily deprived of property, also called protection of possessions. Key forms: UDHR Article 17, ECHR Protocol 1 (1952), US Fifth Amendment Takings Clause, South African Constitution section 25, Indian Article 300-A.
Right to repair
The right to repair is a consumer movement and policy principle holding that owners and independent shops can fix products using the parts, tools, and documentation manufacturers provide.
Right to silence
Right to silence: a suspect's privilege against self-incrimination in criminal proceedings, also called the privilege against self-incrimination. Covers adverse inferences, ECtHR Murray case law, England and Wales CJPOA 1994, and the US Fifth Amendment bar on adverse inference at trial.
Right to Work
Right to work: the human right to gain a living by freely chosen work (ICESCR article 6, ILO Convention 122), not a guaranteed job; distinct from US anti-union right-to-work laws and UK immigration right-to-work checks.
Right triangle
A right triangle, also called a right-angled triangle, is a triangle with one 90-degree angle; its sides obey the Pythagorean theorem, and its ratios define sine, cosine, and tangent.
Right turn on red
Right turn on red (RTOR) is a traffic rule, used in the United States and similar regions, allowing a right turn at a red light after stopping unless prohibited.
Right ventricular failure
Right ventricular failure is the syndrome of systemic venous congestion, with or without low cardiac output, caused by right ventricular dysfunction, most often from left heart failure raising pulmonary pressures.
Right ventricular hypertrophy
Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), thickening of the right ventricle wall from chronic pressure overload, seen in pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonale, pulmonary stenosis, tetralogy of Fallot; diagnosed by echo, ECG, cardiac MRI.
Right ventricular myocardial infarction
Right ventricular myocardial infarction is death of heart muscle in the right ventricle, usually from proximal right coronary artery occlusion, causing shock with distended neck veins and clear lungs.
Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction
Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction is congenital heart surgery that rebuilds the passage from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, central to repairing tetralogy of Fallot.
Right whale
Right whales (Eubalaena): three baleen whale species named the 'right' whales to hunt. North Atlantic right whale is Critically Endangered at about 384 individuals; southern right whale is Least Concern; North Pacific is Endangered.
Right-bank Ukraine
Right-bank Ukraine (Pravoberezhna Ukraina) is a historical region on the right (western) bank of the Dnipro River, belonging to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1667 to 1795.
Right-hand rule
The right-hand rule, also called the right-hand thumb rule or right-hand screw rule, is a convention giving the direction of a cross product in physics.
Right-libertarianism
Right-libertarianism is the mainstream branch of libertarianism, also called right-wing libertarianism, combining full self-ownership with unconstrained appropriation of natural resources. It spans minarchism to anarcho-capitalism, centers on Nozick's entitlement theory, and rejects redistributive taxation as forced labor.
Right-of-use asset
A right-of-use asset is an asset recognized by a lessee for its right to use a leased asset, required by IFRS 16 and ASC 842 rather than ownership.
Right-of-way (transmission)
A right-of-way in electric power transmission is the strip of land under a transmission line over which the utility holds rights to build, operate, and maintain the line.
Right-to-left shunt
Right-to-left shunt: abnormal flow of deoxygenated blood into the systemic circulation, causing cyanosis. Causes include Eisenmenger shunt reversal, complex congenital heart disease, PFO, and pulmonary AVMs; diagnosed by bubble echocardiography.
Right-to-work law
Right-to-work laws are U.S. state statutes, authorized by Section 14(b) of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, that prohibit union security agreements requiring dues payment; 27 states have them, and Michigan repealed its law in 2024.
Right-wing antiglobalism
Right-wing antiglobalism: right-wing and far-right opposition to globalization as a threat to national sovereignty, race, and tradition; also called right-wing anti-globalism or the populist backlash against globalization, with roots in the John Birch Society, Liberty Lobby, and French Nouvelle Droite.
Right-wing politics
Right-wing politics: the conservative side of the left-right political spectrum, originating in the 1789 French National Assembly seating of royalists on the right. Covers its definitions, party families (conservative, radical right, extreme right), and its current electoral rise in Europe and the US.