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Hate to say that and sound like a tankie but the human rights framework does have a bias. The human rights court has the reputation to mainly work in Africa and overlook the violations done by the west. Which doesn't annulate human rights violations by authoritarian states of cause but it's good to be aware of this baggage
When most leftists say 'human rights' though, they mean the general concept, not international institutions.
True. At the minimum, it's a good way of agitation. Telling a stranger "housing is a human right" for example will pull more people into your movement than telling them "rights are a bourgeois concept and written law (as opposed to community mediation) will never be just but always reproduce existing hierarchies"