There is no significant difference between criminal gangs, governments, and corporations. Each has some legitimate aspects and some ahady ones. Governments do things like genocide and rendition, corporations do things like bribery, and criminal gangs participate in black market and gray market activity (often illegal simply because governments declare a legal monopoly, as in gambling, arms dealing, prostitution, vengeance killing, etc.)

All are institutions and create the institutional fabric of society. A society that is trending toward greater human rights will observe certain trends in all three kinds of institutions... as will one that is trending toward decreased human rights.