Includes bibliographical references and index.

The internationalization of human rights -- What is a "Human Right"? -- The normative ground of human rights -- Capital punishment -- The question of judicial deference -- The right to moral equality -- The right to religious and moral freedom -- Same-sex marriage -- Abortion.

"In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what has never before existed: a truly global morality--specifically, a global political morality. That morality, which I call "the morality of human rights", consists both of a fundamental imperative, which serves as the normative ground of human rights, and of various human rights--of various rights, that is, recognized by the great majority of the countries of the world as human rights"--