A recent survey by Human Rights, an organization dedicated to educating Americans about human rights, revealed that 93 percent U.S. residents could not name the document. We do a very good job in this country of educating everyone about our constitutional rights. Even those kids who dozed through their required high school American history class know that they have rights and can name some of them.
Human rights are more inclusive, encompassing all the peoples of the earth.
They are rights that everyone possesses simply because he or she is a human being. World War II, the Holocaust and the struggles of countries newly emerging from colonialism provided the catalyst that propelled human rights into global awareness.