I can see where you're coming from, but I think I'd put the human rights contributions of Washington and Jefferson and co. above anything done by modern statesmen.
The very concept of inalienable rights stems from such dead white men.
Sure. But I'm making distinctions. There is a great muddling of concepts that makes discourse difficult, perhaps impossible. On this forum, Constitutional rights are the main issue, and those rights are presumed inherent in being human or civil citizens. Then along came civil rights, mostly a voting rights issue, and then came human rights. Human rights as it stands now includes things such as the right to shelter, medical care, education, the things that a city might provide to a civil populace through various mechanisms including private sector or public sector capitalism. These human rights have a price tag. The Constitutional rights come free. There is a difference. Civil rights are also free, and are a political program to extend Constitutional rights to all, so civil rights are also naturally free and inherently different from human rights.
Human rights come with attached fiscal note.
Sorry for the muddled phrasing, I hope you can see some of the idea anyway.