Human Rights and Morality

The terms 'Rights of Man' and 'Human Rights' are, in themselves, synonymous, but their usages have been very different.  The former is most prominent in the context of the American and French Revolutions, signifying a transition from Monarchism to Democracy, and attributed primarily to individual members of an incipient nation.  The latter is prominent as a United Nations response to the Holocaust, asserting protection from varieties of brutality, e. g. genocide, slavery, torture, etc., and attributed primarily to individuals qua members of some extant ethnic group.  So, while the Rights of Man is a fundamentally Political principle, Human Rights is a more general Moral one, signifying a further concretization of the Universalist doctrines of the preceding centuries.