What is "menschenrechte"

Menschenrechte is German for human rights.

It is part of the title of several organizations:

• Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte (German League for Human Rights), a pacifist group
• Initiative fuer Frieden und Menschenrechte (Initiative for Peace and Human Rights), an East German opposition party
• Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights), a Vienna-based research institute