### Clue: Modify mother's offer due to basic human rights (3,4,8)
### Answer: THE FOUR FREEDOMS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: basic human rights
An anagram ('modify' as an imperative) of 'mother's offer due'. THE FOUR FREEDOMS were stated by Franklin D Roosevelt as the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. We have a ways to go.