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Righting reflex

The righting reflex is a helper's natural desire to fix a client's problems and set them on a better course, a trap in motivational interviewing.

Rightmove

Rightmove plc is a British online property portal, founded in 2000 and listed in London in 2006, and the UK's largest property portal by traffic.

Rights

Rights are entitlements held by a person or other bearer to act, to be in certain states, or to have others act; analyzed by Hohfeld and central to law and morality.

Rights issue

A rights issue, also called a rights offering, is an equity fundraising in which a company offers new shares to existing shareholders, usually at a discount.

Rights of Man

Rights of Man is a political pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in two parts in 1791 and 1792, defending the French Revolution against Edmund Burke.

Rightway

Rightway is a New York healthtech company founded in 2017 by Jordan and Ted Feldman that offers healthcare navigation and a transparent pharmacy benefit manager for employers.

RIGI (Argentina)

RIGI (Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones) is an Argentine investment incentive scheme created in 2024 under President Javier Milei to attract large projects with tax and foreign exchange benefits.

Rigo Duterte

Rigo Duterte, born Rodrigo Sangkola Duterte II in 1998, is a Filipino politician and Vice Mayor of Davao City since 2025, grandson of former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Rigoberta Menchú

Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Maya human rights activist from Guatemala. She won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on indigenous rights and social justice.

Rigveda (ऋग्वेद)

The Rigveda (ऋग्वेद, Rik Veda) is the oldest of the four Vedas of India, a collection of 1,028 Sanskrit hymns praising the Vedic deities, transmitted orally for millennia.

Rihla of al-Ghazzal to Spain (1766)

The Rihla of al-Ghazzal to Spain is an Arabic travelogue by the Moroccan scholar and diplomat Ahmad al-Ghazzal about his 1766 embassy to King Carlos III of Spain.

Rihla of Ibn Battuta

The Rihla of Ibn Battuta (تحفة النظار) is an Arabic travel book dictated by Ibn Battuta to the scribe Ibn Juzayy in Fez and completed in 1355–1356.

Rihla of Ibn Jubayr

The Rihla of Ibn Jubayr (رحلة ابن جبير) is an Arabic travel account of a 1183 to 1185 pilgrimage to Mecca by an Andalusi secretary.

Riho Terras

Riho Terras, born 1967, is an Estonian politician and former military officer with the rank of general, a Member of the European Parliament since February 2020.

Riigikogu

Riigikogu is the unicameral 101-member parliament of Estonia, elected for four-year terms across 12 districts, holding legislative power under § 59 of the 1992 Constitution; it elects the President, passes the budget, and descends from the 1919–1920 Asutav Kogu.

Riikka Purra

Riikka Purra is a Finnish politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and chairs the Finns Party in Petteri Orpo's government.

Rijcklof van Goens

Rijcklof van Goens (1619–1682) was a Dutch East India Company officer who conquered the Portuguese positions on Ceylon and served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1678 to 1681.

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam): the national museum of the Netherlands, housed in Pierre Cuypers' 1885 Gothic-Renaissance building. Holds 1.1 million objects including Rembrandt's The Night Watch; 2.3 million visitors in 2025; open-data Collection Online.

Rikken Kaishinto

The Rikken Kaishinto (立憲改進党, Constitutional Progressive Party) was a Japanese political party founded by Okuma Shigenobu in 1882, advocating a British-style parliamentary cabinet system until its 1896 dissolution.

Rikken Kokumintō

Rikken Kokumintō (立憲国民党, Constitutional Nationalist Party) was a Japanese opposition party of the late Meiji and Taishō periods, led by Inukai Tsuyoshi from 1910 to 1922.

Rikken Minseitō

The Rikken Minseitō (立憲民政党, Constitutional Democratic Party) was one of the two major parties of early Shōwa Japan, founded in 1927 and dissolved in 1940 under the New Order movement.

Rikken Seiyūkai

The Rikken Seiyūkai (立憲政友会, "Friends of Constitutional Government") was one of Japan's dominant political parties from its founding by Itō Hirobumi in 1900 until 1940, when all parties were absorbed into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.

Rikkokushi

Rikkokushi (六国史, "Six National Histories") is the collective name for Japan's six imperially commissioned national histories of the Nara and Heian courts, compiled between 720 and 901.

Rikman Momin

Rikman Momin, also reported as Rikman G. Momin, is an Indian politician who leads the Bharatiya Janata Party's Meghalaya unit, facing pressure after the party skipped the 2024 Lok Sabha elections there.

Riksdag

Riksdag (Sveriges riksdag), Sweden's unicameral parliament of 349 seats with 310 constituency seats, 39 adjustment seats, and a 4% threshold; elected by proportional vote every four years, it makes laws, sets the budget, and in the 2026 election returned a 176–173 opposition majority.

Rikuentai

The Rikuentai (陸援隊, "Land Support Corps") was a band of masterless samurai organized in 1867 by Nakaoka Shintarō of Tosa as a land force for overthrowing the Tokugawa shogunate.

Rila Monastery (Рилски манастир)

Rila Monastery (Рилски манастир) is the largest Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria, founded in the 10th century around the tomb of St John of Rila.

Riley Ennis

Riley Ennis is a biotechnology entrepreneur who co-founded Freenome, a company developing blood tests for early cancer detection, and serves as its Chief Product Officer.

Riley Owen

Riley Owen is a 27-year-old Republican nominee for Utah's 1st Congressional District in the 2026 U.S. House election, a former White House policy analyst and Navy Reserve intelligence officer.

Riley v. California

Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), a unanimous Supreme Court decision with United States v. Wurie, held police generally need a warrant to search a cell phone seized incident to arrest, though exigent circumstances still apply.