A.J. (Tony) Veal is Adjunct Professor in the Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and previously worked at the then Polytechnic of North London and the University of Birmingham. He is past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and former chair of the UK Leisure Studies Association. He is co-chair, with Atara Sivan, of the World Leisure Organisation’s Human Rights Group.

• Part I Introduction.- 1. Leisure and human rights: an introduction.- 2.Human rights in the modern era.- 3. Leisure and human rights.- Part II Activity-Specific Rights.- 4. Human rights and leisure time.- 5. Human rights and sport.- 6. Human rights and travel/tourism.- 7. Human rights and culture, heritage and the arts.- Part III Group-Specific Rights.- 8. Human rights and children’s play.- 9. Human rights and women’s leisure.- 10.  Human rights and people with disabilities.- 11. Human rights and the leisure/culture of ethnic minorities.- 12. Leisure and other human rights,- 13. Animal rights in human-animal leisure interactions.- Part IV Public Policy.- 14. The UN human rights system.- 15. Human rights and leisure public policy.- 16. Appendix: human rights treaties/declarations (extracts).