What are human rights? / Walter Kalin -- Human existence: the right to life -- Identity of the human person: prohibition of discrimination -- Eight bullets, evidence of an unjust execution / Alexander Kluge -- Inside death row, Huntsville, Texas / Magrit Sprecher -- Brotherhood and unity / Slavenka Drakulic -- The emperor / Ryszard Kapuscinski -- Visualising women's right to health care in Afghanistan / Sima Samar -- Adequate standards of living: the right to food, the right to health, the right to housing -- Private sphere: the protection of private life -- Human beings for human rights -- eleven portraits -- Intellectual and spiritual life: the freedom of thought and belief, the right to education -- Economic life: the right to work, the protection of property -- Galileo, the heretic / Alexander Kluge -- The emperor / Ryszard Kapuscinski -- Freedom / Carlos Fuentes -- The first exile / Wole Soyinka -- Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag -- In the hands of the state: fair trial and prohibition of torture -- Political participation: political rights and freedom of expression -- Displacement, flight and exile: the rights of refugees and displaced persons.