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There is no such thing as a fundamental human right. There is no such thing as human rights at all except insofar as it descibes the belief that it exists. For many people, the existance of human rights would be beneficial. They beleive in these rigths and create (or attempt to create) a society in which the rights have been secured. Saying a right is fundamental is saying that it is important to those people and is generaly a right that they believe further rights are built on.

There is a similiar meaning of "rights" as a word used to descibe what people are able to do. The fact that I have legs gives me the right to walk, for example. Within this idea, there is a further idea of natural rights, which descibes what the rights (that is, abilities,) of people in nature — or more aptly, people not in civilized society — have, which I think is what you are refering to. There are people who believe in human rights that use natural rights to discover human rights but it is not necessary to do so. A more popular definition of human rights is what the people decide or what people who study human rights decide.

Realizing that rights are not real, that is, something that you "have" or are born with, is important if you want to truly understand them.