Gregory's ServerHuman rights don't seem very popular these days, but I quite like them. The UN website has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 555 languages. Here is the word they use for "right".
Unfortunately, many languages from Russia are missing - although they might be the ones who need it most these days.
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In many Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages the word for "right" as in "opposite of left" is the same as the "right" in "human right" - but this is far from universal. In many languages (also Germanic ones, like the Scandinavian languages) the two words are not related at all (e.g. Norwegian 'rett' - 'høgre').