Equal rights
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Equal rights may refer to:
- Equality before the law, when all people have the same rights
- Equal Justice Under Law (civil rights organization)
- Human rights, when such rights are held in common by all people
- Civil rights, when such rights are held in common by all citizens of a nation
- Rights guaranteed under gender equality, proposed variously:
- by the women's rights movement growing out of women's suffrage
- by the men's rights movement growing out of the men's movement
- Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that intended to advance such a condition for women's rights
- The law of equal liberty, a moral principle described by Herbert Spencer
It can also refer to:
- Equal Rights (motto), motto of the state of Wyoming, USA
- Equal Rights (journal), a 1920s feminist journal
- Equal Rights (album), a 1977 reggae release by Peter Tosh
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