Globalization and Human Rights

Abstract

Globalization is a multidimensional miracle; it involves a deepening and broadening of rapid trans-border exchanges due to developments in technology, communications, and media. There is enough evidence that the world wealth, in general, rapidly increasing due to the advance in science and technology and that it is more than enough to satisfy the needs of all the dwellers of the globe . What is needed is the globalization of human rights and prosperity and to improve the effects of globalisation on human rights. Widespread violation of human rights leads to an increasing feelings of deprivation and injustice among the populations of the different countries of the world it was enhanced by the rapid and unprecedented advance in communication and information technologies, which really turned the world into a global village. The movement against the slave trade, and to fight the more indiscriminate or destructive forms of weaponry, are early examples of international movements to counter the negative side of international trade and technology. “Development of human rights acts as specified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 and the succeeding United Nations agreements was the result of globalisation. The paper focuses on how globalisation has affected human rights, for this the methodology used is historical and descriptive.”

Keywords: Globalization, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Populations.