How does globalization affect human rights?

Introduction

According to F. Guillen (2001), globalization is “a process increasing cross border flows of goods, services, money, people, information and culture”. So, it is a worldwide phenomenon, including very different aspects such as economics, politics and socials, which has intensively spread just after the World War II.
Indeed, after spending several years of fear, countries wanted to prevent those kinds of things from happening again (Levin Institute Study on Human rights – 2008). So, cooperation through market trades and international organizations creation seemed to be the best solution for promoting a worldwide peace.
Liberalistic politics and markets have permitted to create a real “borderless world” (Kenichi Ohmae -1990) in which companies cannot avoid interacting with foreign countries. Moreover, a stronger cooperation between countries has been designed to allow them to better fight against rules violation.
Notwithstanding, the main arisen problem about globalization is that it has allowed some companies to be even more powerful than some countries. In fact, on the top 100 economies in the world, 37 corporations are listed (63 countries). For example, Exxon Mobil Corp’s value added is more important than Pakistan’s GDP. Multinational enterprises are “our modern day leviathans” (Chandler and Mazlish – 2005)

While media progresses and developments have permitted to bring people closer together, now citizens are more aware of what’s happening far away from their home such as Nike violating human rights because its Chinese supplier was using child labor force, but also the extraordinary economical differences among countries and individuals. Currently, with the increase of the global responsibility regarding to social conditions…, globalization’s impacts on human rights have become a controversial issue targeted by any media.
The Levin Institute explains that “Human rights recognize the dignity