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It is also not followed globally due to what was mentioned prior, corrupt government. Countries with communist government are against globalization. Take North Korea again as an example. Their human rights are completely different than westernized societies as their governments belief’s are different. Equality does not exist in a lot of corrupt countries. Countries need a stable government in order to conform to globalization.

What really IS poverty?

There are two different types of poverty:

Absolute poverty:

Argument #2:

Relative poverty:

A measure of income inequality

THESIS

Globalization sets the standard of living of Western societies in impoverished countries.

Deprivation of basic human needs.

i.e. water, food, shelter, etc.

The functions of globalization affects poverty which shape our human rights.

Chart Paper Activity

What causes poverty?

There are many factors that causes poverty:

Argument #1:

What is your idea

of being

Is this what poverty looked like in your head?

"impoverished?"

-lack of individual responsibility

-incompetent government control

-exploitation of others by people with more power and influence

-inequality and lack of development through society

The result of globalization leads to the exploitation of already impoverished people who lack human rights.

Conclusion:

Do you think poverty is a big issue that needs to be solved? What needs to be done in terms of a solution? Has globalization helped at all?

Argument #3:

Society is not easily affected by the state of the impoverished countries and the lack of human rights and equality that everyone should have but certain countries do not have.

Globalization & Human Rights: Poverty

1. Are the standards of poverty/identity of poverty relevant to our society today?

Most of us aren't concerned about what in fact is going on in other countries. We may try to garner some sort of ability feel sorry for those around the world, but are we truly doing anything to stop this?

Child Labour generates millions in revenue for transnational companies strictly based off of Cheap Labour and cost cuts

Because they pay kids so little to in fact make products, they tend to save an adequate amount of money to profit off of.

For one, if we were we would in fact stop purchasing manufactured goods that promote lack of human rights, i.e products created in sweat shops, labour camps and through the most renowned form, child labour

1. Why is it that impoverished countries fail to achieve the necessities of our basic human rights?

Political corruption is one of the main reasons impoverished countries fail to achieve the necessities of our basic human rights. This is when the government uses their own power for illegitimate gain.

Does poverty personally affect you? if not, is it something you feel responsible to change?

It's inevitable to try and avoid products made out of non regulated working conditions, statistics show that approximately 138 of our household appliances, goods or objects are manufactured through unfair forms of labour or child labour, both being highly unsafe and inequitable working alternates.

Our society has become "okay" with the fact that were purchasing goods that are in fact not regulated through equitable benefits, fair worker treatment and age restrictions on working.

How many of you have a pair of these?

For example, corruption mainly happens in countries with the minimal per capita incomes in which they rely on foreign aid for health services. This is one example why some countries fail to achieve necessities of basic human rights.

North Korea as an example is a communist country. Although they are not impoverished, they fail to achieve the necessities of basic human rights. They do not have the same rights that western societies have such as freedom of speech. Human rights in North Korea are heavily restricted. More basic human rights they fail to achieve are freedom of expression, religion, movement, etc. There are many other countries like this, such as Cuba, China, and Vietnam.

GUESS THE SWEATSHOP USER

2. Why is this standard not followed globally?

1. Does globalization help or hurt the world's poor?

One of the reasons is that globalization is not followed globally is that globalization has its downsides as well. Such as how globalization encourages free trade among countries, the more poor countries need to to save their national markets.

Globalization can have a negative effect on society and can contribute towards increased poverty in the world.

For example, according to Robert Reich, a political economist, “national economies” are disappearing . By this he means that large, foreign multinational companies are setting up their businesses in developing countries and taking away business from the smaller, local companies. Local companies are going out of business and people are becoming poorer.

2. Are countries that are known for being impoverished benefiting from globalization?

Rapid growth and poverty reduction in China, India, and other countries that were poor 20 years ago, has been a positive aspect of globalization.

Globalization has helped raising the standard of living for many countries in the world, such as the richest countries, that with the help of the technology they continue growing.

Meanwhile in poor Asian economies like Bangladesh, Vietnam or Cambodia large numbers of women now have work in export factories at wages that are low by world standards but are much higher than what they would have earned in other jobs within their village.

Of course, their work conditions may be considered as those of ‘sweatshops’. But those who complain about the exploitation of young women in the factories of transnational companies have to appreciate the relative improvement in the conditions and status of these women compared to the alternatives that are available.

For example, an Oxfam Report quotes an interview with Rahana Chaudhuri, a 23-year old mother of three children working in the export processing zone producing garments in Bangladesh:

“This job is hard-- and we are not treated fairly. The managers do not respect us women. But life is much harder for those working outside. Back in my village, I would have less money. Outside of the factories, people selling things in the street or carrying bricks on building sites earn less than we do. There are few other options. Of course I want better conditions. But for me this job means that my children will have enough to eat, and that their lives can improve.”

A 2001 survey of 1322 women workers in Dhaka shows that the average monthly income of workers in garment export factories was nearly 86 per cent above that for other wage workers living in the same slum neighborhoods.

There has been a rise in wage inequalities in developed nations. This is due to the rising demand for higher skilled labour in society compared to the lesser demand for lower skilled labour.

The growing size of the economy in developing countries means that more people are being paid lower than average wages and are working in poor conditions so that an even amount of money can go around for all workers. Most often the workplace for these workers is known as a 'sweatshop'.

Globalization has been the cause for increased poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.

One of the main problems with Africa is that the price of their exports is decreasing while the price of their imports is constantly rising since they import manufactured goods and export raw materials.

Also, not as many people in the developed world want to buy as many African products and the market for African goods is becoming smaller since globalization has caused the introduction of many trade barriers such as taxes and limited quantity.

Since the market for African products is shrinking and the price of their exports is very low, they have to borrow from developed nations in order to pay for their import which increases their debt even more. Therefore, the countries have very little money that they can spend on development and poverty increases.

2.Do we care about the way globalization affects the impoverished countries?

It's easy to ask yourself that, but can you answer truthfully?

Unfortunately, we continue to go through with purchasing and funding these organizations to continue this.

As mentioned before in the previous argument, as a society we might claim we care, but the significant rates of poverty just go to show that insteaed of diminishing the issue, we add to the problems my supporting the growth of poverty through forms of globalization, which neglects others human rights.

As previously spoken of, the Conflict diamond is a perfect examples as to how Globalization affects the humans rights of individuals

Materialism, enhanced consumption and the portrayals media gives to our society are a few reasons as to why we continue to support the poverty induced by globalization.

We are often exposed to an idea that having the best material things gives us some sort of adequate place within our society

This Equates to Our ability to fund TNC's and

increase the gap between the

impoverished and wealthy

The diamond industry is an incredibly prosperous and bustling one, diamonds are natural minerals that create a revenue that far exceeds that of any other natural mineral. Western society and it's image of being "rich" and "wealthy" with the use of diamonds is in fact a trait of globalization, with this image it has allowed countries to exploit others in harnessing these diamonds for personal gain, causing lack of welfare, health risks, death, unfair working treatment, unsafe working conditions and of course forced labour.

Many of the developed western countries have aided in trying to put and end to poverty around the world, but the efforts have steadily not tarnished the greater problem.

Many organizations have in fact tried to stop poverty as a whole such as:

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