Economic Globalisation and Human Rights: EIUC S. Benedek<|

Economic Globalisation and Human RightsEIUC Studies on Human Rights and Democratization\nAuthor(s): Wolfgang Benedek, Koen De Feyter, Fabrizio Marrella\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521187633, 978-0521187633\nSynopsis\nEconomic globalisation is one of the guiding paradigms of the twenty-first century. The challenge it implies for human rights is fundamental, and key questions have up to now received no satisfying answers. How can human rights protect human dignity when economic globalisation has an adverse impact on local living conditions? How should human rights evolve in response to a global economy in which non-statal actors are decisive forces? Economic Globalisation and Human Rights was originally published in 2007, and sets out to assess these and other questions to ensure that, as economic globalisation intensifies, human rights take up the central and crucial position that they des.