Human rights and globalization

GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS (The Impact of Globalization on Human Rights

Introduction

Humanity has always been in the look out for change in search for better conditions . The widespread perception of change in the context of development is always associated with economic growth , characterized by increased production due to increased consumption of goods and services In a normative sense , it serves as a social goal covering a wide sphere such as achieving high living standards , better material-well being wider opportunities for quality education and work , being able to afford leisure activities

, enjoy health care , or essentially the whole concept of a desirable material and social welfare . This goal has shaped man 's history and political boundaries through the years . Today , the process of achieving them has evolved into a process called globalization

What the world is witnessing in this generation is an increasing rate of integration of economies of the world into one capitalistic political zone , dictated by a neo-liberal free market ideology . This is the current world better known as globalization . Although it is being referred to as the new , it is not entirely a new phenomenon . The world has seen it evolving through the years and it is gaining momentum day by day . Instead of a world economy based on national markets , it has shifted into a global market economy that transcends political bs and which is increasingly being governed by a common set of rules . In essence , globalization connotes economic liberalization by developing a global financial system and a transnational system of production based on a homogenized law of value

Globalization is bringing the world smaller and smaller as people around the globe are able to connect to each other more than ever before . It has brought a faster flow of information and money , and goods and services produced in one part of the world are readily made available in different parts of the world . International travel has drastically increased and international communication has become commonplace . This phenomenon has been referred to as globalization . The current times is preferably being termed as The Era of Globalization ' just as certain particular periods of history were described as the Depression the Roaring 20 's , the Space Age , and the Cold War Era . Globalization is more than just global business . Social activists , journalists , labor organizers , and many others also operate in a global scale (K .Porter Globalization : What Is It

What contributed to the development of globalization was the demise of the Cold War which allowed the emergence of a new aggressive level of competitiveness in the global economic . As newly industrialized countries and other developing countries are being integrated globalization spread out . Market liberalization thru globalization had contributed to the economic growth of certain countries , but more are raising questions concerning the negative impacts that it has brought into the developing societies . Globalization had been described by Richard Barnet of the Institute of Policy Studies into four webs of global commercial activity : the global financial network...