Transcript UNIT 4 Roles and Responsibilities In A Globalizing World

UNIT 4
Roles and Responsibilities In A
Globalizing World
To What Extent Should You, As A
Citizen, Respond To
Globalization?
Quality Of Life
• THE CONDITIONS IN PEOPLE’S LIVES
Disparity
• ECONOMICAL
AND SOCIAL
GAPS AMONG
INDIVIDUALS,
COMMUNITIES,
OR COUNTRIES
Standard Of Living
• A COMMON MEASURE OF THE
QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF GOODS
AND SERVICES TO WHICH YOU HAVE
ACCESS
For Example
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Clean Environment
Personal Safety
Political Rights
Rights to earn a living using traditional
means
• Good health
Gross Domestic Product
• THE VALUE IN US DOLLARS OF ALL
GOODS PRODUCED AND SERVICES
PROVIDED IN A COUNTRY’S ECONOMY
IN ONE YEAR, DIVIDED BY THE
COUNTRY’S AVERAGE POPULATION
FOR THE SAME YEAR
Economic Disparity
• In 2005, 62 out of 193 countries in the
world accounted for 96% of the world’s
gross domestic product
UN Human Development Index
• Measures the average achievements in a
country in three basic areas of human
development
GDP Index
• GDP Index as measured by GDP per
capita
Life Expectancy Index
• Life Expectancy Index – as measured by
life expectancy at birth
Knowledge Index
• Knowledge
Index – as
measured
by the adult
literacy
rates
combined
with school
enrollment
rates
Internationalism
• Internationalism is a policy of countries
working together for the common good of
race, religion, nationality, etc.
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• Based on six different categories
1. POLITICAL RIGHTS
• Example…the right to vote and participate
in the government
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• 2. CIVIL RIGHTS
– Including the right to
freedom of opinion
and expression
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• 3. EQUALITY
RIGHTS
– Example…the
right to be free
from
discrimination
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• 4. ECONOMIC
RIGHTS
– Including the right
to fair wages and
safe working
conditions
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• 5. SOCIAL RIGHTS
– Example…the right to
education and to
adequate health care
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• 6. CULTURAL
RIGHTS
– Including the right to
participate in the
cultural life of a
community, and the
right to speak your
first language
DEMOCRACY
• Where the
government
governs with the
consent of the
governed
– Of the people, by
the people, for the
people
Chapter 16
To what extent does globalization empower
individuals and groups in society?
• United Nations Convention on the Rights
of the Child (1990)
– 140 countries signed on by 2006
– “the child (a person under the age of 18), for
the full and harmonious development of his or
her own personality, should grow up in a
family environment, in an atmosphere of
happiness, love, and understanding…and in
particular, in the spirit of peace, dignity,
tolerance, freedom, equality, and solidarity.”
Child Labour
• In 2004, about 250 million children
worldwide between the ages of five and
fourteen were working in jobs that ranged
from farming to mining and factory work.
Reasons
• Why employers hire children:
– Children work for lower wages
– They are too young to protest against
hazardous working conditions
– They are easily exploited because they are
inexperienced
– In some societies, children are encouraged
and expected to work
Child Soldiers
• In 2005, there were
more than 300,000
serving in military,
paramilitary, and
rebel groups in the
world’s conflicts.
• Human Rights
Watch:
campaigning to stop
the use of child
soldiers around the
world.
UNIANWGE
• United Nations Inter-Agency Network on
Women and Gender Equality
Educating Girls
• 1. Educated females are likely to pass on
what they have learned to other family
members (both male and female)
• 2. Educated females are able to seek
employment opportunities that will raise
the standard of living and quality of life for
themselves and their families
Educating Girls
• 3. Educating females has been shown to
improve the health of their entire family.
Studies show that educating women leads
to a decrease in infant mortality rates.
Employment Equity
• Equal pay for equal work
NGO’S
• Non-Government
Organizations
– Most often addressing
the needs of third
world countries
– Examples: OXFAM,
World Vision,
Compassion Canada
GROOTS
• Grassroots Organizations Operating
Together in Sisterhood
– Organizes cross-country exchange between
low-income community self-help groups that
are working to benefit from globalization