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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Human
Rights Reader 297</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">CAPITALISM,
NEOLIBERALISM AND HOW THEY SCORE IN THE ERA OF U</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">NFETTERED GLOBALIZATION AND FLAGRANT
DISREGARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS</span></b><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">.
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">(part 1 of 2)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-Social
and economic climbing is so often accompanied by moral degradation.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.5in"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-We
know, ten times over, that free markets stand for the<span style>  </span>primacy of shareholder value over long term
social values, for investing in speculative assets over investing in real
productive economic activity with all what this entails for an impact on
ordinary people’s rights.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The global market is a sick patient suffering from unequal distribution and
excessive liberalization. Its human rights (HR) consequences are far-reaching.
It is thus urgently in need of restraining controls. Free markets are arenas of
conflict in which actors with totally different bargaining powers interact;
they invariably reflect the influence of the more powerful interests of duty
bearers. The nature of claim holders-duty bearers power relations in free
markets is crucial to understand who wins and who loses, precisely because
markets keep the poor stuck in poverty traps.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The have-less of the world are simply tired of the top-down, undemocratic
impositions of the international market that keeps-on promising that
grand-solutions-are-about-to-descend-on-people.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>

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