Oft I see folks who use these terms interchangeably. Are they interchangeable? My thoughts:
Human rights extend from one human to another, without respect to nationality, geography, caste, gender, religion, status. I'm not sure that I could list those, but they probably incluse an expectation to be left alone unless the perpetrator was assaulting you.
Civil rights are those that protect you from your government. Things like freedom of the press, freedom to assemble. etc. These rights flow as a result of a compact between citizens to keep a gang, represented by the democratic majority, from inappropriately constraining the actions of a minority or individual to accomplish the goals of the majority.
Civil rights imply a civic relationship. They do not extend logically to non-citizens. Human rights limit the actions of individuals and government, are unrelated to citizenship, and protect the freedoms of individuals.
We should articulate the difference in our laws. Civil rights come with responsibilities. Human rights do not. When we confuse the two, we set ourselves up for a conflict that spreads beyond our borders. Our Civil Rights do not extend to folks passing through. We should not expect others to agree with our civil rights and implement them because we think it's a good idea. We should consider adoption of our civil rights limitations as a precursor to foreign aid. We should not be surprised if countries refuse our aid as a result of these prescriptions. And we should not cave in to it either.
It is ridiculous to conclude that a person waging war against US forces in a foreign land and captured during said should be accorded US civil rights to trial for the action. It is ridiculous to conclude that an illegal immigrant should be accorded US civil rights in her battle to remain in the US. If we as a democracy decide that such things as free legal representation is a human right, rather than a civil right, them that representation should be provided. We haven't decided that yet.
Do we have a right (human or civil) to think anything we want? Not if we have hate crime legislation, we don't.
The UN has (since 1948) a charter describing human rights. Many of these overlap US Civil Rights. Perhaps we ought to cut off aid and relations with any country that doesn't adopt and effect these rules?