[mabbo]

Does a right need to be written down to be a right? Perhaps some human rights transcend the legal system of any specific country.

[zymhan]

They went ahead and wrote it down.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12

> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

[refurb]

Without a way to enforce a right, it's worthless. Is the UN going to come to my rescue over this?

[Finnucane]

The US Constitution says no. That’s basically what the 9th and 10th amendments mean. The framers knew they couldn’t explicitly list every conceivable right, so they just said , ‘and, etc.’