Communication rights and capabilities

We question whether and how the capability to communicate can be safeguarded by the mechanism of establishing communicating as a right. In order to do so, we define what communications are, explore the nature of rights and specifically the scope of the right to communicate and how that term relates to the notion of ‘communication rights’, and introduce the idea of the capability to communicate and the elements it is comprised of, which need to be identified in order to identify what type of right the right to communicate is and communication rights are, and to ensure the viability of these rights. The capabilities approach and its focus on positive rights serves as the main theoretical foundation for this analysis.