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Globalization and Human Rights: How Globalization Can Be a Tool to Protect the Human Rights

Globalization and Human Rights: How Globalization Can Be a Tool to Protect the Human Rights

Soumi Banerjee
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781522507239|ISBN10: 152250723X|EISBN13: 9781522507246
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch001
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Banerjee, Soumi. "Globalization and Human Rights: How Globalization Can Be a Tool to Protect the Human Rights." Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization, edited by Christina Akrivopoulou, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch001

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Banerjee, S. (2017). Globalization and Human Rights: How Globalization Can Be a Tool to Protect the Human Rights. In C. Akrivopoulou (Ed.), Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization (pp. 1-16). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch001

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Banerjee, Soumi. "Globalization and Human Rights: How Globalization Can Be a Tool to Protect the Human Rights." In Defending Human Rights and Democracy in the Era of Globalization, edited by Christina Akrivopoulou, 1-16. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0723-9.ch001

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Abstract

The world has undergone a change from ancient to modern. The enthusiasm among people to discover the undiscovered actually marked the beginning of the modern era and the advent of globalisation can be viewed as a bi-product of this modern civilisation. Globalisation was apparently meant to enhance cooperation among nations as partners in trade, but, gradually with better exposure to each other's culture, people started embracing the global ideas, habits, and way of life. Globalisation is therefore not just the integration of economies and markets, but it is also the integration of cultures and understandings, making people aware of their rights and role to be played in transforming the society for better. Thus, globalisation can rightly be called as the source of modern human rights, as it has no doubt played an active role in preserving and protecting Human Rights by technological expansion, increasing neo-liberal values, establishing certain super-national institutions and by promoting and maintaining civil liberties that uphold freedom, transparency, and popular participation.

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