what is meant by "human rights"?
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Generally accepted principles about the treatment of people, the best known is the UN's Universal Declaration on Human Rights, see link below.
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Are you possibly referring to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?  Many countries have developed their own charters of rights and freedoms. \n\nI've included a few links that should help you.
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Article 1 \nAll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. \n\nArticle 2 \nEveryone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. \n\nFurthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. \n\nArticle 3 \nEveryone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. \n\nArticle 4 \nNo one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. \n\nArticle 5 \nNo one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. \n\nArticle 6 \nEveryone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. \n\nArticle 7 \nAll are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. \n\nArticle 8 \nEveryone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. \n\nArticle 9 \nNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. \n\nArticle 10 \nEveryone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. \n\nArticle 11 \nEveryone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. \nNo one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. \nArticle 12 \nNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. \n\nArticle 13 \nEveryone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. \nEveryone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. \nArticle 14 \nEveryone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. \nThis right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. \nArticle 15 \nEveryone has the right to a nationality. \nNo one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. \nArticle 16 \nMen and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. \nMarriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. \nThe family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. \nArticle 17 \nEveryone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. \nNo one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. \nArticle 18 \nEveryone has the right to freedom of thought, cons
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http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/resources/biic_student_writing/fy/human_rights.pdf#search='yugoslavia%20war%20human%20rights%20offences'\n\nTry the link above it also contains six other links that would help you alot... good luck...
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http://www.un.org/rights/\nhttp://www.hrw.org/\nhttp://www.hrweb.org/\nhttp://www.hri.ca/index.aspx
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A bill of rights is a statement of certain rights which, under a society's laws, citizens and/or residents either have, want to have, or ought to have.\n\nIn some jurisdictions, the bill of rights is entrenched in the constitution or Basic Law of that nation-state. When embedded in the constitution, it can prescribe the limits of power the government has to intervene in the lives of its citizens. Usually such entrenched bills of rights have codicils that define the extent of limitation of rights in times of war or civil unrest. The rights outlined in a constitution are protected from being changed as other acts cannot contradict or contravene the provisions of an entrenched bill of rights.\n\nA Bill of Rights may be unentrenched. This means it exists as a separate legal instrument of parliament. An unentrenched bill of rights may be weakened by other acts passed by the same parliament. If those other Acts contradict what the bill of rights sets out to protect then this can happen as the parliament making the Acts has the power to do so. A vote of the people is not required to alter the bill of rights. An unentrenched bill of rights therefore does not necessarily permanently protect rights.\n\nA statutory bill of rights is one that exists as a separate Act of parliament. As such it can be amended or repealed by the parliament that created it. It is therefore not as permanent as a constitutional bill of rights. A bill of rights that is written into the constitution of a country is a constitutional bill of rights. As such there is democratic protection of the bill of rights as the constitution containing the bill of rights cannot be changed unless it is with the approval of the voting public in that country. Rights being protected are more likely to be protected permanently.\n\nIn other jurisdictions, the definition of rights may be statutory. (In other words, it may be repealed just like any other law and does not necessarily hold greater weight than other laws). Not all jurisdictions enforce the protection of the rights articulated in their bill of rights.\n\nA 'bill of rights' may also be an aspirational statement of the rights that citizens ought to have even though the defining body does not have the ability to enforce the protection of those rights. The United Nations's (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights is currently an example, though this may be perceived as a controversial example depending on one's opinion of the UN's current ability to effectively enforce its decision.\n\nInfringement of rights protected by a bill of rights (such as by repeal of statutory protections or by statutory infringement of constitutionally protected rights) may cause civil unrest, civil disobedience or even revolution. A common concern of libertarians is the gradual erosion of rights, especially those articulated in bills of rights. This concern is heightened during times of war or crises when certain rights may be perceived by some as a luxury compared to security concerns.\n\nA parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement is a talk, a discussion, hence a meeting (an assembly, a court) where people discuss matters.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliment
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Rights you recieve.  Duties you give.\n\nIt is your right to a fair trial.\n\nIt is your duty to report a crime.
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Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality.\n\nNGO Monitor is a project with the stated aim of monitoring non-governmental organizations operating in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. It is a program of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and was formerly a joint project with B'nai Brith International.[1].\n\nNGO Monitor describes its goal as "end[ing] the practice used by certain self-declared 'humanitarian NGOs' of exploiting the label 'universal human rights values' to promote politically and ideologically motivated anti-Israel agendas."\n\nNGO Monitor has criticized several international human rights organisations, including Christian Aid for its alleged "extensive involvement in anti-Israel propaganda campaigns" [2] and Human Rights Watch whose reports it found to be "systematically and exceedingly biased" [3], Amnesty International [4], Oxfam [5] and Medecins Sans Frontieres [6]\n\nIt has also accused the Ford Foundation of funding NGOs, such as the Palestinian human rights organization Al Mezan Center, allegedly involved in "blatantly political anti-Israel activities". [7] Subsequent to this criticism, the Ford Foundation modified its policies regarding funding of NGOs.[8]
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It hasn't.\nHuman rights are a bit more basic, the big three are the right to life, the right to be free from slaveryand the right to be free from torture. \nCivil rights are things like the ability to earn the same wage as someone else doing the same job, other, more legal, governmental, or civil types of issues.
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no war, human rights, environment, economy,
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Freedom of action within limits, with honour and dignity.\nViolators may be hated and not attacked.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not binding law in any way. It is more an affirmation of the basic rights that the UN is supposed to strive to uphold. The Bill of Rights is binding law in the United States, since it is a part of the Constitution. The source below have more information on both.
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A 'right' to live is something granted by society to those choosing to live in that society BY THE RULES OF THAT SOCIETY. If they choose to break those rules, then society should have the right to take away the right to live in that society (basically what prison does). I favor the old British Empire means of 'transportation', except child molesters should be 'transported' to the bottom of the ocean without a submarine.
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Not real sure what you want?\n\nTry looking at The United States Bill Of Rights.\n\nFree - speech, religion, right to trial, right of privacy, right to own property, etc.
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What makes you think you have a right to anything? \n\nSuggest reading Rights in the wikipedia.\n\n"There are two fundamental controversies surrounding the notion of rights: First, there is the question of the basis for rights (on what basis can rights be said to exist). Second, there is the question of the content of rights (what the rights of a person actually are)."\n\nWhat is a right?\n"At its most fundamental, a right is a claim, on other persons, that is acknowledged and perhaps reciprocated among the principals associated with that claim." \n \nWho granted  you these rights?
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A clear distinction must be made between human rights and civil rights. \n\nHuman rights are inherent and inalienable, and are defined by universal documents (these rights, however, are often mainly given lip service, particularly by dictatorial regimes).\n\nCivil rights are those rights citizens of a nation have as a matter of constitutional guarantee. They cannot be violated by the authorities, and depending on the particular right, by other people. Civil rights can be abridged or even abrogated following conviction of a crime, however. \n\nNations beset with instability grant fewer civil rights to its citizens than stable, established democracies such as  in the US or UK.
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So, why does there have to be "Women's Rights","Mens Rights" or any special consideration or privileges for anyone based on sex, religion or the color of one's skin?  Why not just make it all "Human Rights!"