Fernando Falcón y Tella is Doctor in Law and Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He spent periods researching at the Universities of Paris, Geneva and Oxford. He is the co-author of Punishment and Culture (2006, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) and is the author of a number of books and articles on human rights and legal theory in Spanish and French.

• Foreword; I Introduction; II A Study of Some of the Main Challenges Currently Presented to Human Rights; 1 Multiculturalism and Human Rights; 2 The International Criminal Court; 3 Globalization and Human Rights; 4 The Most Recent Generations of Human Rights; 5 The Right to Peace and War Conflicts at Present; 6 The Issue of “Gender”; Table of Contents; III Some Concluding Thoughts; IV Bibliography; Index.

Fernando Falcón y Tella is Doctor in Law and Associate Professor of Legal Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He spent periods researching at the Universities of Paris, Geneva and Oxford. He is the co-author of Punishment and Culture (2006, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) and is the author of a number of books and articles on human rights and legal theory in Spanish and French.

• Foreword; I Introduction; II A Study of Some of the Main Challenges Currently Presented to Human Rights; 1 Multiculturalism and Human Rights; 2 The International Criminal Court; 3 Globalization and Human Rights; 4 The Most Recent Generations of Human Rights; 5 The Right to Peace and War Conflicts at Present; 6 The Issue of “Gender”; Table of Contents; III Some Concluding Thoughts; IV Bibliography; Index.