To guarantee the respect of these rights, various instruments have been written and affirmed by nearly all civilised nations world over. Various nations have gone further in their commitment to human rights by enshrining most of the provisions into their constitutions and into domestic law. Zambia today is a signatory to nearly all the main human rights instruments and it is pleasing to note that the whole of part III of the Zambian Constitution is an extract from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is a tendency by many people to try to list human rights in the order of their importance. Reality, however, has shown and continues to show that any attempt at creating hierarchies of rights is doomed to failure.
All human rights are core and central.
Denial of one right invariably impedes enjoyment of others. This precisely is why many people have referred to human rights as being indivisible, interdependent and inter-related . They are all priorities and of equal importance. Debt becomes a human rights issue as far in as it can be said to be one of the major obstacles to the practical realisation and full enjoyment of human rights. What has happened is that heavily indebted developing countries spend huge sums of their scarce national resources on debt servicing.