ohwilleke

Yes. Human rights are an attempt to reach on consensus on what is and isn't moral within a limited context on a very wide scale.

Human rights attempt to do this, basically, in the context of a more or less functioning central government with working courts vis-a-vis its populace.

They are akin to the ten commandments in that they try to encapsulate a moral system in a very small number of pronouncements.

They differ in that the ten commandments place a much greater emphasis on "private law" (i.e. how people in a just society should interact with each other) rather than "public law" (i.e. how government should interact with the state).

Both claim an element of universality, however, that is artificial.