# Individual and group rights | | Group rights, also known as collective rights, are rights held by a group as a whole rather than individually by its members; in contrast, individual rights are rights held by individual people; even if they are group-differentiated, which most rights are, they remain individual rights if the right-holders are the individuals themselves. Historically, group rights have been used both to infringe upon and to facilitate individual rights, and the concept remains controversial. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Individual and group rights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_and_group_rights) |