What are human values?

Traditional concept of human values

More than personal and cultural values

They are a set of absolute ethical values. Principle values which are the foundation for other values and measures of integrity, inspired upon universal concepts such as dignitiy or freedom.

Human values are occasionally in accordance with moral values, but they are bet interpreted as things that benefit the group of people, or person, perpetrating them. Although they are to some extent absolute and universal, human values are best understood in terms of openness to change and rights while moral values most of the times regard matters of right and wrong, prohibitions and are constant and unchanging.  

Sometimes ideological or doctrinal (political or religious) values are referred to as 'human values'. Actually, it is possible to say that all of them are not one and the same thing. "Right" and "wrong" are not so easily changeable by the moods of society; for example, just because gays are much persecuted it doesn't make homosexuality wrong.

And it is important to note that they are concerned not only to social and cultural issues but also with the ways in which human beings relate to nature.