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Subject: Ethical Globalization - Human Rights - Gender
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What is Ethical
Globalization?
Today's globalization is one of stark
contrasts. There are more connections - markets, people and ideas linked as
never before. At the same time, there are more divisions - between North and
South, between rich and poor, between the powerful and powerless.
These divides can be seen in statistics. At a time of unparalleled prosperity for some, 54 countries are poorer now than they were a decade ago.
In 14 countries, more children are dying before their fifth birthday. In 21 countries, more people are going hungry. In 34 countries, life expectancy has fallen.
Worldwide, the number of people living in
chronic poverty and daily insecurity has not changed for more than ten years,
with women and children suffering disproportionately.
No one will deny any longer that turmoil in one region can spread rapidly to others, through terrorism, armed conflict, environmental degradation or disease as demonstrated by the rapid spread of AIDS around the globe in a single generation.
While the connections are evident, we seem further apart in finding ways to tackle global problems in a coordinated way where the burdens and responsibilities are shared.
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VIDEO on ETHICAL GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS - Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.realizingrights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=109
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Ethical
Globalization:
- Acknowledges shared responsibilities for addressing
global challenges and affirms that our common humanity doesn't stop at
national borders.
- Recognizes that all individuals are equal in dignity
and have the right to certain entitlements, rather than viewing them as
objects of benevolence or charity.
- Embraces the importance of gender and the need for
attention to the often different impacts of economic and social policies
on women and men.
- Affirms that a world connected by technology and trade
must also be connected by shared values, norms of behavior and systems of
accountability.
Ethical globalization requires greater recognition of the responsibility of the international community to help people who have been denied their fundamental rights. This requires taking human rights beyond their more traditional political and legal realms and applying them to other fields.
Realizing Rights energetically applauds the innovative and successful initiatives around the world that are advancing the notion of shared responsibility for the challenges of globalization.
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