Derechos humanos

Question

I read a spanish article about Africans and how they are being mistreated, etc etc.

During my (tedious) translations, I saw the word for human rights being written as "derechos humanos", which is kind of like a literal translation of the wordings. I thought this was pretty cool, and wondered if there were any other ways to express human rights in Spanish, and if the wording is just like that because that's how it came from America. Does anyone know the background for this?

Answer 1

Derechos humanos is correct - it comes from the latin - In Latin 'dirigere' means set right and 'humanus' means human;