<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 309</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION, A SOCIETY OF
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND OF RESPECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO BE
A MIRAGE (OR A FARCE?).</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><span style> </span>(J. Osorio)</span><span style></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">For the fulfillment of
human rights, the obstacles to be overcome are actually way beyond what
the core of economic globalization, i.e., the free market, can overcome and
offer. This is why, using our solid knowledge of HR, we need to find the way(s)
to penetrate the policy making levels of the political sphere controlled by the
ruling political class, now for too long championing free market
economics.<span style> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p> <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">For market fundamentalists, the market is a very
precious entity; it is considered ethically valuable for them due to its
‘fundamental virtues’. But freewheeling, permissive markets have nothing
virtuous about them! Look at what they do to human rights! If nothing else, but
in the name of HR, we thus must draw the inevitably obvious conclusions and
tame and regulate such permissiveness.<span style>
</span>We are not helpless before the forces of the market!<span style> </span></span><br><br><br>For the full Reader go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1Fi">http://wp.me/plAxa-1Fi</a> <br><br>Claudio<br><br>