%0 Journal Article
%T The View From Orthodoxy: Point/Counterpoint on Globalization and Human Rights
%A Claudio Schuftan
%J International Journal of Health Services
%@ 1541-4469
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0020731417752292
%X The long-term trend of globalization masks a frank deterioration of the situation of the have-nots. Since 1970, polarization has grown faster than inequality, with alarming consequences for human rights and the economy overall. Globalization has continued to enrich the few at the expense of providing a decent livelihood and respecting the human rights of the many. Industrialized countries continue to be the rule makers¡ªpoor countries the rule takers. Rich countries go for growth, but an inequality-entrenching growth that brings about human rights violations and poverty. In many developing economies, income inequality and the violation of human rights have clearly increased over the past 3 decades. Discriminated losers have been fighting globalization before it had a name; they still are. Globalization has thus actually resulted in greater income inequality plus human rights violations and disrupted lives. Globalization may well be a finished project. We must remind our respective governments that they have the power to improve working people¡¯s lives so that they, once and for all, address the needs of those who lose out from technological change and globalization. Otherwise, our political problems will only deepen
%K human rights
%K globalization
%K contradictions
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020731417752292