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Right Sector (Правий сектор)
Right Sector (Правий сектор) is a Ukrainian far-right movement formed during Euromaidan from Tryzub, UNA-UNSO, and Patriot of Ukraine, led by Dmytro Yarosh, with a volunteer corps in the Donbas war and consistently small vote shares (0.71% presidential, 1.80% parliamentary, 2014).
Right Socialist Party of Japan
Right Socialist Party of Japan (右社会党), right-wing social democratic party created by the 1951 split of the Japan Socialist Party; anti-communist democratic-socialist foreign policy; reunited with the left wing in 1955.
Right to a fair trial
Right to a fair trial: human right to a fair, public hearing within a reasonable time before an independent, impartial tribunal established by law, protected by UDHR Article 10, ICCPR Article 14, and ECHR Article 6.
Right to be forgotten
The right to be forgotten (right to erasure, GDPR Article 17) lets individuals request delisting of personal data from search results. Established by the 2014 CJEU Google Spain ruling; balanced against free expression; no US equivalent.
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 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 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-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-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.
Right-wing populism
Right-wing populism combines thin-centered populist ideology (pure people versus corrupt elite) with nativism and authoritarianism; exemplified by Front National, FPÖ, Lega, PiS, AfD, Fidesz, and Trump's MAGA movement.
Right-wing terrorism
Right-wing terrorism: political violence by far-right non-state actors driven by racial supremacy, antigovernment, or nationalist ideologies; also called ERWT in the UK. Known for firearms-based lone-actor attacks on minorities, religious institutions, abortion providers, and government targets.
Righteous Among the Nations (חסידי אומות העולם)
Righteous Among the Nations is an honorary title awarded by Yad Vashem to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, with 28,707 individuals recognized from 51 countries.
Righteous armies
Righteous armies (의병, 義兵) were voluntary Korean civilian forces, raised without state pay or command, that resisted the 1592–1598 Japanese invasions, seventeenth-century Manchu invasions, and Japanese rule until 1910.
Righteous armies of 1592
The righteous armies of 1592 (의병) were volunteer guerrilla forces raised by Korean literati and commoners after government armies failed, first raised by Gwak Jae-u at Uiryeong.
Righteous Army (Yibing) militia system
The Righteous Army (義兵, yibing) was the Yuan dynasty's system of locally recruited militias, authorized chiefly between 1350 and 1357 to supplement armies weakened by rebellion.
Righteous Army movement
The Righteous Army movement (의병) was a series of Korean popular armed resistances in which volunteer militias fought Japanese encroachment on Korea from 1895 to 1915.
Righteous Army of Jeong Mun-bu
The Righteous Army of Jeong Mun-bu (정문부 의병) was a Korean volunteer force raised in 1592 during the Imjin War that drove the Japanese from Korea's northeast.
Righteousness
Righteousness is a theological term translating the Hebrew tsedaqah and Greek dikaiosyne, whose meaning has been argued over for centuries: as covenant faithfulness, a forensic declaration, an infused grace, and a life of good works.