Gerakan hak asasi manusia merupakan gerakan sosial dan aktivisme non-pemerintah dalam masalah-masalah hak asasi manusia. Landasan gerakan hak asasi manusia global termasuk perlawanan terhadap: kolonialisme, imperialisme, perbudakan, rasisme, segregasi, patriarki, dan penindasan terhadap masyarakat adat.
Prinsip utama gerakan hak asasi manusia adalah pertimbangannya tentang universalitas: gagasan bahwa semua manusia harus berjuang dalam solidaritas guna mencapai seperangkat kondisi dasar yang diikuti oleh semua.
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- Clapham, Human Rights (2007), p. 19. "In fact, the modern civil rights movement and the complex normative international framework have grown out of a number of transnational and widespread movements. Human rights were invoked and claimed in the contexts of anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-slavery, anti-apartheid, anti-racism, and feminist and indigenous struggles everywhere."
- Clapham, Human Rights (2007), p. 19–20. "...the sense of solidarity amongst those who believe they are the victims of a human rights violation can transcend class, gender, and other distinctions. This sense of connectedness is critical to understanding the changing world of human rights."