High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Group rights are rights held by a group rather than by its members separately, or rights held only by individuals within the specified group; in contrast, individual rights are rights held by individual people regardless of their group membership or lack thereof. Group rights have historically been used both to infringe upon and to facilitate individual rights, and the concept remains controversial. Group rights are not straightforwardly human rights because they are group-differentiated rather than universal to all people just by virtue of being human.