The rights which are fundamental to the life of the citizens of a country are known as fundamental rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 outlines what is considered in this century to be the fundamental consensus on the human rights of all people in relation to such matters as security of person, slavery, torture, protection of the law, freedom of movement & speech, religion, and assembly, and rights to social security, work, health, education, culture, & citizenship. It clearly stipulates that these human rights apply to all equally “without distinction of any kind such as race, color, sex, language… or other status” (Art.2). Human rights imply the rights that belong to all the human beings irrespective of their nationality, race, caste, creed, gender, etc.
The main difference between fundamental rights and human rights is that the fundamental rights are specific to a particular country, whereas human rights has world wide acceptance.
