ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. This book focuses on the practice of rights in our daily lives and on applications of conceptual matters to particular, specific rights. After all, it is how rights play out in our day-to-day lives that make them a concern for us. The book discusses various issues concerning rights. It focuses on various components such as what are legitimate rights holders, in virtue of why do some agents have rights, and so forth. The book discusses broad social and cultural questions and focuses on how we "use" rights today. It stresses the application of rights theory to specific rights, such as the right to free expression or the right to privacy or children's rights. Finally, the book provides some of the important rights documents that have been instrumental in how people in the twenty-first century understand rights.
