Tag Archives: human-rights
Rethinking NAFTA’s Environment and Labor Agreements
Should the United States reassess its current trade policies? The democratic presidential candidates, Senators Clinton and Obama, would like to review current trade agreements and examine labor and environmental standards. Senator Clinton wants to institute 5-year assessments on existing trade …
Climate Change and Indigenous People
The U.S., Europe, Japan, Canada, and other developed countries are debating national policies to make their countries more energy-efficient and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasesgases that help trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming and …
What Japan Thinks About Globalization
Japan ranks as the world’s 3rd largest economy and is a leader in the fields of IT-related industries, automobiles, and animation. For many years, Japan used the seniority system and hired workers for “life;” this system functioned well until …
Fashion and Globalization
Fashion Rio week in January 2008 looks like any other Fashion week found in more than 40 cities around the world, such as Oslo, Kiev, Lahore, and Berlin. The first fashion week took place in New York City in …
Case Study: Illicit Drugs and Globalization
Unfortunately, there are very few issues that thoroughly relate to every aspect of globalization. International trade in illicit goods, such as drugs, weapons, and body parts, is one of them. These industries have been around since the dawn of time …
Making the World Healthier: Debates about Smoking Bans, Trans Fat Bans, and Legal Drinking Ages
What Pakistanis thinks about Globalization?
What Pakistanis thinks about Globalization? President Musharraf of Pakistan recently became a civilian president. He has promised that Parliamentary elections will still take place in January, despite the current “State of Emergency” that suspended Pakistan’s constitution. Pakistan’s intellectuals and bloggers …
Human Rights Abuses in a Globalized World: Burma Case Study
The world watched this fall as Buddist monks protested in Burma and as policemen arrested the protestors. Ordinary citizens told their stories to the world by using cell phones to videotape rallies and subsequent police clashes; blogs and social networking …