assert one's rights

The need of the hour is to assert our right.

They think now is the time to correct social problems, to assert their rights.

"I assert my right to the information, since it must have concerned me."

In other words, a defendant may not assert another person's rights.

"The point is to scare off the next community that might try to assert its human rights."

Now Greeks have asserted their right to hold them once again, for the first time since 1896.

"What if one group here asserts its right to own slaves?"

In an attempt to assert her rights, she made plans to return to Britain.

As attitudes towards women became more traditional, he asserted their rights.

Workers must assert their rights to obtain any kind of protection.