Human Right and Responsibility

A Right is symbolic protection against interference in some activity, usually underwritten by a threat of legal retribution.  So, the U. N. Human Right to an adequate standard of living does not, in most cases, exemplify that scheme.  Now, it does when exploitation deprives someone of their just deserts.  However, the intention of its formulators is broader--to combat the negligence that, if not causes, reinforces and compounds Hgrotesque disparities in the possession of vital goods.  So, a more apt traditional Moral term than either Right or Duty, as an expression of that intention, is Responsibility--of others, for those living in substandard conditions.  That formulation goes beyond even Marxism in making  Species-Being a factor in human interaction.