Self-determination_(disambiguation)

Self-determination (disambiguation)

Self-determination (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term


Self-determination Self-determination of peoples is the right of nations to make their own decisions without interference from others.

Self-determination may also refer to:

  • Self-determination, or the right to self-determination, is a classical, universal and basical human rights and fundamental freedoms concept, more specifically, the right of individuals to have autonomous decision-making over their own bodies and life, the right to independently decide in matters like medical treatment, family life, (anti-)conception, reproduction, public life, marriage, or life and death.
  • Self-determination theory, a theory of human motivation and personality
  • Gender self-determination, the concept that a person's legal sex or gender should be determined by their gender identity
  • Self-ownership is a concept of property in one's own person, expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to have bodily integrity and be the exclusive controller of one's own body and life. Through consent of the governed, John Locke interprets self-determination of a nation to be the case, if and only if every person's self-ownership is respected by the government.
  • Informational self-determination
  • African-American self-determination
  • Vetëvendosje (Albanian for self-determination), a progressive political movement in Kosovo

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