By transforming borders and de-territorializing behavior, globalization raises a
host of questions and concerns fundamental to law. Many commentators argue that
international law and national law are no longer adequate categories for the
totality of "law" today, and offer an array of new concepts such as
transnational law, global law, global legal pluralism, etc., to help us
understand law in the global space. This paper offers one view of how concepts
such as "transnational law" and "global law" stand in relation to one another
and to what has been traditionally understoodas "national" and "international"
law, employing the different dimensions of law as process, output and structure.
The paper tries to analyze the legal issues emerged aftermath of the
globalization and the solutions provided thereof through different laws.
The development of the "global society" - also referred to as "globalization" -
brings about fundamental changes not only in the economy, in society, and in
politics but also in the law. These changes affect the areas subject to legal
regulation. The technologies of communication and travel, the expanded economic
areas, and the political opening of states lead to increases in cross-national
communication, international dispersion of production systems, transnational
trade, global markets, mobility of people and businesses, and offshore
investment. These processes have both desirable, socially advantageous effects
as well as effects that are damaging to society. The dissemination of newspapers
is simplified as is the dissemination of hate speech; trade with legal goods
profits as does trade with illegal goods; mobility of tourists and workers is
facilitated as is that of unwanted persons. All of these processes are subjects
of laws that are designed to create a framework conducive to international
exchange and at the same time to minimize risks. Due to the increasing transnationalization
of activities subject to legal regulation, legal questions
that transcend borders arise more and more frequently.
This is true of all three
major branches of law. In the private law context, parties in different
countries sign contracts of sale, multinational enterprises form
competition-limiting cartels that affect the world market, and - through the
dissemination of files in the Internet - copyright violations occur in a
multitude of states simultaneously. Similarly, public law is confronted by
cross-border cases when emissions damaging to the domestic environment are
released from foreign territory, foreign suppliers offer gambling via the
Internet, multinational concerns divert profits to subsidiaries located in
offshore tax havens, and financial supervisory authorities control the sale of
foreign financial products. In criminal law, corresponding challenges arise
when, in the prosecution of transnational terrorism and global organized crime,
cross-border investigations must be coordinated and access to persons or
evidence abroad obtained. In the area of international criminal law, too, new
problems arise when armed groups attack foreign territories rather than their
own country. It is a seamless transition from cross-border activities, which
take place in the territories of two or more countries, to activities of global
magnitude, whose effects are felt all around the world and which can only be
solved by the joint efforts of the world community of states. As a result of
this increasing need for cross-border regulation, the traditional law of the
nation-state is confronted more and more frequently with "transnational"
activities that affect several states, engender legal decisions that must be
enforced in foreign territory, and raise issues that can only be solved on a
global level.
Introduction
If globalization is the main paradigm of our time, then a chapter on
globalization and law could also be entitled, simply, the law of our time. Few,
if any, areas of law are not—at least potentially—fundamentally impacted by
globalization. In reality, of course, the impact of globalization on legal
thought has, so far, been more limited. That has various reasons. A first reason
is that globalization, although (or perhaps because) it is generally accepted as
the new paradigm of society, has remained a remarkably vague concept in general
discourse. The fundamental debates over globalization of the 1990s more or less
petered out, without leading to a clear consensus. A second reason is that legal
thought has so far reacted to globalization not with a true paradigm shift but
instead by more and more inapt attempts to adapt the methodological nationalism
that has provided its paradigm for the last two hundred years or so.
The same
can still be said about much of social theory, which also remains within such a
state paradigm. Globalization has not, yet, led to a true paradigm shift.A third
reason, finally, is that globalization poses interdisciplinary challenges, and
interdisciplinary in law and globalization is still surprisingly lacking. on the
one hand, many of the conceptual and theoretical discussions of globalization
ignore or downplay the law as an important factor (beyond an occasional nod to
international law). A widespread understanding of globalization distinguishes
three aspects: economics, culture, politics. Law, in the words, is absent. In
legal thinking, on the other hand, globalization is often either purely absent
(where discussions are purely doctrinal) or appears as a simple idea of
internationalization that somehow influences the law. on the other hand, legal
theory and doctrine have, until recently, often operated with oversimplified
concepts of globalization.
Globalization is loosely defined as "integration and democratization of the
world's culture, economy and infrastructure through trans-national investment,
rapid proliferation of communication and information technologies, and the
impact of free-market forces on local, regional and national economies.
From this definition, one can instantly discern a heightened "connection," or
networking, if you will, among nations and peoples through trade, travel, and
information exchange. It is an inter-connection that has, in fact, existed for
many centuries, but the invention of machines has greatly accelerated the pace
of development in these three areas. By the turn of the first millennium, the
seeds of globalization had already taken root in the eastern hemisphere,
particularly in the lands bordering the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. These
were the most dynamic regions in the world at the time, and trade was the
primary motivation of the advanced Asian cultures in reaching out to unknown
territories. Western civilization, by contrast, was still in its seminal phase.
Interaction with the traders was the spark they needed to catch up. It took more
than half a millennium, however, before the great thinkers of Europe began to
recognize transplanted eastern wisdom.
The Renaissance eventually ushered in
rapid development in keeping with the growing population. Explorers from the
great western powers of the time - England, Spain, Portugal, France, the
Netherlands - reached the remote corners of the Earth, purposely or at times
fortuitously, bringing with them not just goods for trading, but also religions
and ideologies for mental subjugation, hand in hand with superior military
equipment for physical conquest. Yet, despite the shadow cast by such show of
force, it cannot be denied that the seeds of globalization, as earlier defined,
were starting to take root. The 20th century saw the heightened globalization of
services and information. Spurred by the earlier Industrial Revolution and the
opening of the frontiers of the United States of America, the West began to
overtake the Eastern powers which had been mired in their own concepts of tried
and tested greatness vis-t-vis what they perceived to be the modern ways of
"hairy barbarians." By the end of the Second World War, the West was dictating
the course of world trade, including the way nations ought to behave in
conducting it. It was also in the 20th century where several new developments
quickened the pace of globalization and strengthened the economic links among
countries. one of the most important changes was the diminished transportation
costs, made possible by the availability of less expensive oil and the invention
of energy-saving devices. Another key development was the emergence of more and
more multinationals - the modern symbol of globalization.
While misgivings have
been expressed regarding the effects of multinational corporations on the
economy and the worker population, especially those in developing countries, a
Columbia University economist, Jagdish Bhagwati, states that "studies find that
they actually pay a 'wage premium' - an average wage that exceeds the going rate
in the areas where they are found, ranging from 40% to 100%." He asserts that
foreign corporations with better technology and management practices provide
technology transfer, new ideas and expectations and increased competition in the
local job market.A third factor that promoted globalization was the creation of
international economic institutions - such as the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank), the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), and the World Trade Organization (WTO) - to help regulate the flow of
free and fair trade and money among nations.
The duties of the 147member WTO,
successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), include, among
others, administering trade agreements, acting as a forum for trade
negotiations, and assisting developing countries. Developing countries had
blamed lavish subsidies paid to farmers mainly in rich countries for driving
down prices and effectively sidelining them on world markets. Finally, advances
in telecommunications and computer technology made it much easier for people to
communicate with each other and to conduct their business. Managers, for
example, can now easily coordinate the global activities of their organization
involving various corporate divisions, clients, and suppliers, without even
leaving their headquarters. But globalization has its dark, ugly side too.
Events in one country may have serious consequences for ordinary people in
another part of the world. In the late 1990s, for example, a long economic
recession in Japan spread to Southeast Asia.
Core Legal Issues of Transnational and Global Subjects of Regulation
At first glance, the legal problems caused by transnational activities in the
three branches of law appear to be heterogeneous and difficult to categorize. If
the crux of the legally relevant changes is analyzed, however, in terms of
activities that affect several states, engender legal decisions that must be
enforced in foreign territory, or raise issues that can only be solved on a
global level, two fundamental problems become clear. In all three major branches
of law, the issue is, on the one hand, the transnational applicability of law
and enforceability of law in foreign territory below I. and, on the other hand,
the need to cope with new global challenges that overwhelm the regulatory
capabilities of individual nation states a. Transnational Applicability and
Enforceability of Law.
A. Transnational Applicability and Enforceability of Law
Transnational Applicability of Law
The issue of the applicability of a national legal system to activities that
exhibit transnational attributes arises in all three major branches of law. In
criminal law, the issues are whether substantive criminal offense definitions
encompass activities with a foreign nexus (e.g., does Indian criminal law apply
to a German company that bribes an official outside of India?) and whether
Indian criminal law is applicable abroad (so-called extraterritorial
applicability of national criminal law); here, with very few exceptions, German
law enforcement authorities can only apply their own national criminal law.
However, the mere fact that German law is applicable does not mean that other
legal systems are perforce inapplicable; the parallel applicability of another
legal system (or systems) may be avoided, in certain cases, by the principle ne
bis in idem. In private law, additional conflicts-of-law questions are raised,
as international private law requires courts, under certain circumstances, to
apply foreign law. According to general rules of international law, states have
the authority to prescribe law with respect both to conduct that takes place
partially or entirely within its territory (territoriality principle) as well as
to conduct that - emanating from the territory of another state - has effect
within its territory (effects principle).[2]Due to the numerous
globally-applicable systems, it is often the case - in all three major branches
of law - that more than one legal system may be applicable to one and the same
activity so that not only are provisions regarding the applicability of law
necessary but also rules governing conflicts of law, namely, rules that
establish the priority of a particular legal system or that eliminate
conflicting norms or values.
As legal systems often differ from one another considerably, the choice of
applicable law can lead to significant advantages and/or disadvantages for the
affected parties. In practice, these differences are exploited - in private law
- to avoid consumer or creditor protection provisions (by means of the
appropriate choice of law by the contractual parties) and - in criminal law - to
evade domestic criminal norms by shifting activities abroad. Examples of this
kind of forum shopping include the use by domestic companies of foreign forms of
corporate structure (such as the British "Limited"), the offering in the
Internet of
gambling opportunities based in Gibraltar, the
disposal of environmental contaminants in countries with minimal environmental
protection standards, and the announcement by financial institutions of their "move" to another country if they are subject to more stringent regulation in
their current domicile. Forum shopping is tempting not only for citizens and
businesses but also for the state. A recent example of forum shopping by states
can be seen in the ships deployed by NATO to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden
that are outfitted with so-called shipriders from adjoining African countries.
The presence of ship riders allows for the transfer of suspected pirates to the
judicial system of the ship riders’ home countries without an evaluation of the
difficult human rights issues posed by such "hand-offs." Thus, clear
jurisdictional and conflict-of-laws rules for the various legal systems are
necessary, both to insure the continued viability of legal security as well as
to prevent abuses of law and forum shopping.
If it is clear that a particular national law is applicable to a particular
activity, the effectiveness of the respective regulations in a global world often depends, additionally,
on the concrete enforcement of national norms and
especially of criminal judgments in foreign territory. For in criminal law,
national criminal justice authorities can, as a rule, only enforce their
decisions - such as arrest warrants, search warrants, and judgments - within
their own territory. The same is true of decisions of civil courts and
administrative agencies. The enforcement of national coercive measures abroad
thus requires special legal regulations and implementation procedures.
If the applicability and enforceability of national law in foreign territory is
not assured, activity that is criminal in one country may be rendered
unpunishable or difficult to prosecute due to the existence of so-called crime
havens, consumers may lose the protection of their national law, and workers may
be harmed as a result of social dumping. In this situation, the regulatory
authority of the nation state is reduced to a race to the bottom.[3]Thus, an
important task of the law in the global world is to guarantee that, where
necessary, regulations are not only nationally but also transnationally
applicable and enforceable.
b. Regulation of Global Challenges
A second core task of law in a global world involves dealing with large-scale
challenges in which the issue at hand is no longer merely one of enforcing the
interests of individuals from one territory in another territory but rather the
issue to be solved implicates the interests of several states. Such issues
include protecting security in the face of terrorism and protecting the climate,
the arctic, financial markets, international competition, intellectual property
in the Internet, as well as the new international institutions and values (whose
very existence is a result of globalization), such as the common European
currency, the financial interests of the European Union, and the functionality
of international tribunals.
Thus, the question arises in all three major branches of law as to the cases for
which these kinds of common solutions are necessary and the models and
structures with which the solutions can be achieved. And due to globalization
not only above basic issues which have been already discussed in the global
world but also issues in other fields have also been arisen which are discussed
as under:
1. Migrant Workers under International Law and the legal issues
The traditional though questionable distinction between refugees and migrant
workers represents an enduring misunderstanding about the reach of international
law based on the wrong premise that the former are entitled to international
protection, whereas the latter are left to states’ discretion. In tracing the
historical origins of this dualism, Rieko Karatani (Volume II Chapter 1) argues
that ‘the distinction between "migrants" and "refugees", and the institutional
setting which flowed from that division, was inadvertent rather than deliberate,
resulting from the desire of the US [United States] to limit the involvement of
international institutions’.[4]The author further highlights that the current
patchwork of international norms and institutions resulted from the ‘battle’
between the US and the relevant international organizations (ILO and UN) over
how to deal with displaced persons in Europe after the Second World War After
two international conferences organized at Naples and Brussels in 1951, the US
plan was accepted and the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the
Movement of Migrants from Europe - now renamed the International Organization
for Migration - was created outside the UN with a mandate concurrent to those of
UNHCR and ILO. Yet the current piecemeal approach of international organizations
and legal norms does not mean that migrant workers are outside the ambit of
international law. While the ILO prompted the adoption of two specific treaties
in 1949 and 1975,[5]the UN adopted in 1990 the International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families,
which entered into force in 2003. This last instrument is however not free from
ambiguities. As many other international treaties, the Migrant Workers
Convention reflects the conflicting issues at stake. As Linda S. Bosniak (Volume
II Chapter 2) convincingly demonstrates, the UN Convention is ‘a hybrid
instrument, at once a ringing declaration of individual rights, and a staunch
manifesto in support of state territorial sovereignty’.[6]on the one hand, it
represents the most comprehensive treaty in the field of labour migration. Most
notably, it provides a clear-cut restatement of civil, social and labour rights
for all migrant workers and their families, including undocumented ones. By
contrast, a substantial range of additional rights is granted only to documented
migrant workers. They concern family unity, freedom of movement, the right to
form associations and trade unions, the right to participate in public affairs
of their state of origin and equality of treatment with nationals with regard to
housing, educational and health-related services. on the other hand, by
excluding undocumented workers from these rights, the UN Convention pays tribute
to states’ sovereignty. Such a deference is restated in several occasions
throughout the text of the Convention. For instance, Article 79 restates that
‘Nothing in the present Convention shall affect the right of each State Party to
establish the criteria governing admission of migrant workers and members of
their families’, while Article 35 makes clear that States Parties are not
obliged to regularize the status of undocumented migrant workers.
Despite the balanced approach promoted by the Migrant Workers Convention, this
UN instrument suffers from a poor number of ratifications. It is currently
ratified by 48 states, none of them being Western countries. Antoine Pécoud and
Paul de Guchteneire (Volume II Chapter 3) explore the reasons behind this low
ratification record. They assert that: ‘four types of obstacles play a role:
the, sometimes misunderstood, content of the treaty, the administrative
capacities required to proceed to ratification, its costs and, most importantly,
the political context that plays against granting of rights to migrants’. In
sum, ‘the problem is not the lack of international standards but the lack of
political will to implement them’.With the rise of populism, ratifying the
Migrant Workers Convention appears to be a political risk. It remains however
that the refusal of Western states to ratify one of the core UN instruments
questions their very legitimacy in promoting human rights. It creates a double
standard: while prompt to give lessons on human rights abroad, they do not apply
them at home for one of the most vulnerable groups of persons. Western states’
refusal to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention is all the more surprising
given that migrant workers are in any event already protected by more general
treaties, including most notably the International Covenant on Political and
Civil Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights.
2. Legal challenges thrown up by the forces of globalization in field of trade
and investment
Until a few years ago, most of the discussions about the legal challenges
resulting from economic globalisation were centred around the multilateral
efforts to promote international trade and investment. In this regard, there has
been considerable scholarship on the dispute-resolution functions of the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) as well as the role of arbitral institutions which
facilitate dispute-resolution in the event of commercial disputes between
private parties located in different national jurisdictions. There has also been
some attention given to the settlement of investment disputes between foreign
investors and host governments. Hence, themes related to international trade law
and investment law have become quite prominent in legal exchanges as well as
education. However, the collapse of several financial institutions in recent
times highlights the need for paying more attention to strengthening our
domestic legal and regulatory systems before shifting the focus to multilateral
negotiations and rule-making. In India, the retention of stringent governmental
controls over the banking sector has mitigated the impact of the current crisis,
but many export-dependent sectors are feeling the brunt of the same. For a
country like ours where financial sector reforms began only in the 1990’s, there
is an obvious need to adopt a pragmatic approach towards international trade and
investment. There is no doubt that the progressive lowering of restrictions on
foreign investment and private enterprise has led to the expansion of several
sectors such as banking, telecommunications, information technology, broadcast
media and infrastructure among others. The inflow of foreign capital and firms
in these sectors has undoubtedly created many jobs, created an environment of
competition and increased the choices available to consumers. The expansion of
these sectors has also created ‘regulatory gaps’ which have been addressed
through the creation of independent regulatory agencies. The task of these
independent regulatory agencies is to assist in the formation of policies and
devise rules to ensure a fair balance between the interests of
service-providers, consumers and the government. Several specialised tribunals
have also been set-up for sectors such as telecom and securities regulation to
expeditiously decide disputes pertaining to the same.
The separation between ownership and control is a characteristic feature of
modern corporations, and hence their functions are dominated by the managers
instead of the shareholders. In the pursuit of profits, the managers often make
short-sighted decisions which prove to be detrimental to the interests of
shareholders, workers and consumers. In such cases, there is a clear
governmental interest in regulating the functions of companies by regular
scrutiny and disclosure norms. There is also an urgent need for large
publicly-held corporations to realise that they are accountable not only to
their shareholders and creditors but to several other stakeholders as well. In
the context of encouraging foreign investment, the device of Bilateral
Investment treaties (BITs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are now being
routinely used to safeguard the interests of firms which invest in foreign
countries. Such treaties lay down obligations on part of host governments to
ensure ‘fair and equitable’ treatment for foreign investors, favorable tax and
regulatory schemes as well as safeguards against unjust expropriation. However,
economists such as Joseph Stiglitz have made the point that sometimes the
government of developing nations even agrees to unfavorable terms in these
investment treaties in order to attract foreign investment. While investors seek
protections against unanticipated contingencies, they rarely undertake
commitments to contribute to equitable development in the host country.
Furthermore, treaties concerning trade and investment tend to be negotiated in
an environment of secrecy with limited public participation. Critics also point
to the fact that investment disputes between national governments and foreign
firms are resolved through methods resembling commercial arbitration, where the
orientation of arbitrators from the developed world are often incompatible with
the needs and constraints of host governments in developing nations. Double
taxation is another legal issue which hampers and effects the functioning of
trade, commerce and services in a smooth way.
At first glance, this may not appear to be a major revelation. However, the
isolation of IRL from developing human rights norms and institutions has meant
that refugees and asylum-seekers have not always had recourse to the full range
of rights to which they are entitled. While the 1951 Convention incorporates a
collection of important rights, it is in no way comprehensive. Moreover, IHRL is
especially relevant with respect to non-State-parties to the 1951 Convention
and/or the 1967 Protocol that are otherwise parties to various human rights
instruments, as well as its role in developing international customary rules
that apply to all States. A better understanding of the cross-fertilization
between human rights law and refugee law can also be instrumental in encouraging
a more cogent and uniform pattern of interpretation and implementation. The
increased role of the judiciary in refugee law represents an important avenue
for developing a global jurisprudence.. Besides the obvious political obstacles
to a new treaty, she develops two main arguments. on the one hand, climate
change displacement ‘is likely to be predominantly internal and/ or gradual,
rather than in the nature of refugee flight’.The internal and gradual nature of
displacement induced by climate change is confirmed by empirical studies, but
this can change in the future and one could counter argue that this does not
fundamentally differ from the reality of many victims of persecution who
commonly flee initially within their own countries before they cross an
international border to find protection abroad. on the other hand, she asserts
that ‘it is conceptually problematic and empirically flawed in most cases to
suggest that climate change alone causes migration’. This is instead a
combination of factors including not only climate change but also poverty,
conflict and lack of opportunity. This argument is the most convincing. of
course, one can always argue that, even for current refugees, motivations are
mixed: while fleeing persecution they are also in search for better
opportunities in asylum states, as exemplified by the Mediterranean crisis and
the flows of refugees in Europe.
Although she does not detail further the role of human rights law, it can be
argued that the principle of non-refoulement under human rights treaties has the
potential to provide a substantial protection from forced displacement induced
by climate change. The notions of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment are
indeed more objective than the one of persecution. They can capture the great
diversity of the driving forces of migration induced by climate change and other
aggravated factors. In other words, forcible removal towards a state where
natural disasters and climate change seriously disturb public order may amount
to a degrading treatment. Furthermore, the human rights principle of
non-refoulement does not require a particular ground of persecution such as
those limitedly enumerated in the Geneva Convention (race, nationality,
religion, political opinion or membership to a particular social group).
Although the Geneva Convention is not a human rights treaty for both historical
and legal reasons, human rights law has radically informed and transformed the
distinctive tenets of the Geneva Convention to such an extent that the normative
frame of forced migration has been displaced from refugee law to human rights
law. As a result of this systemic evolution, human rights law has become the
primary source of refugee protection, while the Geneva Convention is bound to
play a complementary and secondary role. This assertion is grounded on a
comparative assessment of the applicable norms under both refugee law and human
rights law governing the three major pillars of the refugee protection regime.
First, access to international protection has been profoundly shaped and
informed by the subsequent development of human rights law regarding both the
refugee definition and the principle of non-refoulement. Second, the same
observation can be made with regard to the very content of international
protection attached to the refugee status. From this angle, human rights law is
broader than refugee law with regard to both its personal and material scope:
the former not only applies to refugees but also to asylum-seekers and other
persons in need of protection. It further includes a larger panoply of rights
that are not guaranteed by the refugee status (such as the right to life, the
prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, freedom from
slavery and forced labour, the right to family unity and the right to return).
Perhaps more fundamentally, human rights law supplants refugee law even when
their respective norms overlap. For instance, the prohibition of discrimination
and freedom of association are broader and more protective under human rights
law and, as a result of the most favourable treatment acknowledged in Article 5
of the Geneva Convention, human rights guarantees prevail over their refugee law
counterparts. Third, a similar process of appropriation can be observed with
regard to the implementation scheme of refugee protection.At the domestic level,
while the Geneva Convention contains no provision on asylum procedure, human
rights law provides key procedural guarantees through notably the right to an
effective remedy and the prohibition of collective expulsion. Finally, at the
international level, the increasing role of universal and regional treaty bodies
compensate for the absence of a truly supervisory mechanism under the Geneva
Convention.
German jurist Savigny says that the law is the spirit of community, which means
that the provisions of the law must meet the needs of the community and address
its problems.
The change in the norms and customs of the peoples lead to changed needs and
problems. The multinational companies play various roles in creating
international business ethical rules and regulations through pressurizing sates
in order to bring changes in its legal systems and legislation for more economic
interests . As for the nature of the crime itself, the phenomenon of
globalization has reflected its impact in the field of organized crimes and made
crimes with extra serious nature. Consequently, as extraordinary openness in
trade, finance, travel and communication has created economic growth and
well-being, it has also given rise to huge chances for criminals to make their
business prosper. The new types of crimes are well organized and the criminals
use the latest developed techniques to commit it, such as computers, network
systems, information systems, internet and technology of communications . The
character of crime has revolutionized considerably in a single generation. Just
decades ago, crime was organized in a hierarchy of operations. It was "industrial"
in that it included the division of labour and the specialization of operations. This composition extended worldwide, as organized crime emulated
the global business [26]. Globalization has not only changed the nature of
crimes, but also changed its types and forms, the nature of criminal and victims
and venue. Moreover, the means of modern crimes in the age of globalization
became more developed than before, and the national legislation is paralyzed in
dealing with those types of crimes. According to Findlay, the globalization of
the market has introduced more and new forms of opportunity for criminals.
Andrea Di Nicola and Alessandro Scartezzini say that "globalization has given
those interested in fraud, for instance, the opportunity to act on an
international level by taking advantage of the lack of regulations in the
commercial and financial markets of some countries" .
The phenomenon of crime has globally expanded due to globalization, which create
a legal crisis that need to be addressed. This crisis has made the credibility
and effectiveness of the law in an awkward position, which requires concerted
efforts not only on the legal level, but the economic and even moral to mitigate
the negative aspects of globalization. it has been proven that a crime can be
considered as globally problematic issue, especially when it occurs across
frontiers, needs no actors and has an accentuating nature all over global
nations.
The deficit in finding solutions that equal and commensurate with the challenges
of globalization makes criminal law loses its primary function in the protection
of both the society and individuals. Prior to globalization crimes are usually
committed by desperate, marginalized and poor people, while now those crimes are
increasingly committed by well educated persons for the same purposes of gaining
financial benefit or for revenge …etc The new types of criminality are described
by the American legal scholar Sutherland as "crimes of powerful persons", he
says that such crimes are committed by the respectable and powerful persons,
such as white collar crimes. Opportunities for new crimes are created by
demographic change, economic reform, globalization and technological
advancement, but because of globalization "criminals have taken advantage of
transitioning and more open economies to establish front companies and
quasi-legitimate businesses that facilitate smuggling, money laundering,
financial fraud, intellectual property piracy, and other illicit venture
Virtually every criminal justice system today overlaps, interacts, and
intermingles with other criminal justice systems. The traditional model of a
single nation-state possessing exclusive authority to criminally sanction those
within its borders is being challenged from below by sub-state demands for
communal autonomy and from above by international and global assertions of
criminal jurisdiction.1It is no surprise that control over criminal justice has
become a significant jurisdictional battleground between nation-states and their
sub-state and supra-state challengers, for criminal jurisdiction is still
considered the sine qua non of state sovereignty.
Opposed to the Sovereigntist position are the Internationalist and Pluralist
points of view, which maintain that international and subnational entities,
respectively, can and should play a vital role in criminal justice.
Internationalists extol the importance of strong supra-national criminal justice
institutions—both those that aim to keep national justice systems in conformity
with human rights norms, such as the regional human rights courts, and those
that directly prosecute and adjudicate the most serious violations of
international criminal law, such as the ICC.8 For Internationalists, there are
universal norms that demand—or at least recommend—international enforcement
mechanisms. From the other end, Pluralists endorse the legitimacy of
sub-national community-based criminal justice, especially by and for indigenous
peoples and other traditionally marginalized minority groups. Pluralists
emphasize that some subnational communities have long traditions of
self-governance and can articulate and enforce communal norms more effectively
for themselves than the state structures in which they live. For Pluralists, in
short, there are common norms that demand—or at least recommend—common
enforcement mechanisms.
While demands for sub-state jurisdiction test the nation-state from below, the
spectacular rise of international criminal law and its claims to supra-national
jurisdiction challenge states from above. International criminal law is a field
just now coming into its own, but it is not a new phenomenon. At its beginnings,
international criminal law consisted of particular substantive crimes deemed so
damaging to world order as to allow for the suspension of the usual territorial
model of criminal jurisdiction. Piracy is the most established and venerable
international crime, and since at least the eighteenth century, international
law has recognized that any sovereign could prosecute piracy regardless of the
site of the crime, the nationality of the perpetrators, or the nationality of
the victims.35 The first major category of international crime, war crimes,
became codified in the late nineteenth century in a series of international
conventions,[7]and the war crimes tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo following
World War II marked the first institutionalized effort to punish state officials
via international criminal proceedings.[8]
Reports of the death of the nation-state are much exaggerated. Nation-states
will continue to be the primary jurisdictional agents of criminal justice—the
principal legislators, enforcers, and adjudicators of criminal law—for the
foreseeable future. But sub-state and suprastate challenges to that jurisdiction
are not going away, and criminal justice officials and legal commentators must
come to grips with the reality of partially autonomous criminal justice regimes
at the substate and supra-state levels. The current fights among Sovereigntists,
Internationalists, and Pluralists are not going to end in decisive victory for
any one vision of criminal jurisdiction. A Bounded Pluralism approach, however,
offers a way forward that honors nation-state values while allowing for
supra-national and sub-national assertions of jurisdiction.
Globalization has engulfed whole world under its influence which are visible
through its distinct impact on all the aspect of human life. The process of
Globalization entails global flow of capital and technologies, development of
global institutions, networks of knowledge and information, and global civil
societal waves. The impact of Globalization is being viewed positive or negative
depending upon the social, political and economic realities of the various
countries of the world whether categorized as developed or developing nations.
It affects the trajectories of development of countries creating social
inequalities and widening the gap between poor and rich nations. Globalization
also brings social transformation and affects the rule of law of the countries
in a significant way. The discourse of human rights has widely influenced under
the orbit of globalization. Human rights violations of vulnerable groups
particularly the minorities and deprived sections are at debate on national
and international forums. Although the universal application of human rights
norms are desired globally but ironically, the issues related to protection of
human rights are highly intolerable and complicated on regular basis. The range
of demands for protection of human rights against the global and domestic
perpetuators are bring rapidly increased from different stake holders of the
society. The new challenges are coming up with new faces of conflicts within
families, groups, institutions and states too. In this sense, the protection of
human rights is becoming so challenging for law as well as state. In modern
context, global community is considering protection of human rights as very much
foundational and central. Throughout the discourse of demands of human rights,
law has to perform very proactive role in various directions. The simplicity may
change into complexity when local issues take a shape of global issue as
global-local nexus has reinforced the hope and belief in human rights values.
The legal relationship between globalization and human rights can be analyzed
from the perspective of economic regulation as well as that of human rights law,
examining first whether international economic law sufficiently supports or
takes into account human rights concerns, then considering the extent to which
human rights law takes into account globalization and economic interests. In
respect to both inquiries, the fundamental question is whether a human rights
system premised on state responsibility to respect and ensure human rights can
be effective in a globalized world.
Opponents of globalization see it as a threat to human rights in several ways.
First, local decision-making and democratic participation are undermined when
multinational companies, the World Bank, and the IMF set national economic and
social policies. Second, unrestricted market forces threaten economic, social,
and cultural rights such as the right to health, especially when structural
adjustment policies reduce public expenditures for health and education. Third,
accumulations of power and wealth in the hands of foreign multinational
companies increase unemployment, poverty, and the marginalization of vulnerable
groups.
Globalization is leading to greater problems of state capacity to comply with
human rights obligations, particularly economic, social, and cultural
rights,such as trade union freedoms, the right to work, and the right to social
security. It also may have a disproportionate effect on minorities. Cooperation
internationally and from non-state actors is needed in the face of an undoubted
concentration of wealth in the hands of multinational enterprises, greater than
the wealth of many countries. Globalization is a particular issue for women,
because they often bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, which may be
exacerbated by economic restructuring, deregulation,and
privatization.[9]Investors have demonstrated a preference for women in the "soft" industries such as apparel, shoe- and toy-making, data-processing, and
semi-conductor assembling—industries that require unskilled to semi-skilled
labor, leading women to bear the disproportionate weight of the constraints
introduced by globalization. The process of economic liberalization has also led
to growth in the informal sector and increased female participation therein.
Employment in the informal sector generally means that employment benefits and
mechanisms of protection are unavailable. Underemployment seems to be as big a
problem as open unemployment.
Another impact observed in many countries is a shift from companies hiring
permanent employees with job security and benefits, to the use of contingent or
temporary workers lacking health care, retirement, collective bargaining
arrangements, and other security available to the permanent work force.As with
other negative impacts of globalization, this one also has more severe impacts
on women,minorities, and migrant workers.Women comprise the largest segment of
migrant labor flows, both internally and internationally. States often do not
include migrant workers in their labor standards, leaving women particularly
vulnerable.Overall, only some 20% of the world’s workers have adequate social
protection.In addition, some 3000 people a day die from work-related accidents
or disease.
Globalization also has produced an important new type of transboundary criminal
enterprise. International crimes that involve or impact human rights violations
are increasing: illegal drug trade, arms trafficking, money laundering, and
traffic in persons are all facilitated by the same technological advances and
open markets that assist in human rights. Traffic in women for sexual purposes
is estimated to involve more than $7 billion a year, but the sex trade is
notthe only market for humans. Coercion against agricultural workers, domestic
workers, and factory workers also is evident.
Another impact observed in many countries is a shift from companies hiring
permanent employees with job security and benefits, to the use of contingent or
temporary workers lacking health care, retirement, collective bargaining
arrangements, and other security available to the permanent work force. As with
other negative impacts of globalization, this one also has more severe impacts
on women, minorities, and migrant workers. Women comprise the largest segment of
migrant labor flows, both internally and internationally. States often do not
include migrant workers in their labor standards, leaving women particularly
vulnerable. Overall, only some 20% of the world’s workers have adequate social
protection In addition, some 3000 people a day die from work-related accidents or
disease.[10]
Globalization also has produced an important new type of transboundary criminal
enterprise. International crimes that involve or impact human rights violations
are increasing: illegal drug trade, arms trafficking, money laundering, and
traffic in persons are all facilitated by the same technological advances and
open markets that assist in human rights. Traffic in women for sexual purposes
is estimated to involve more than $7 billion a year, but the sex trade is
notthe only market for humans. Coercion against agricultural workers, domestic
workers, and factory workers also is evident.
Crime syndicates are rivaling multinational corporations for economic power,
threatening the security and well being of large numbers of persons. The free
movement of capital, which is a prior condition to the growth in foreign
investment, permits money laundering in the absence of exchange controls or
other appropriate regulation. The free circulation of goods can bring stolen
automobiles, smuggled sex workers, and torture implements, as well as fresh
fruit and vegetables. At the same time, new technologies also permit the easier
pirating of intellectual property. Indigenous groups and local communities
challenge the very foundations of intellectual property protection, particularly
when applied to pharmaceuticals necessary to ensure the right to life and to
health.
Certain human rights are particularly threatened by globalization. Respect for
private life needs protection against personal data collection. Cultural and
linguistic rights can also suffer under global assault, but the evidence seems
contradictory. There is no doubt that globalization facilitates the transfer of
cultural manifestations and cultural property. A study by the U.N. Economic and
Social Council (UNESCO) indicates that commerce in cultural property tripled
between 1980 and 1991 under the impulse of satellite communications, Internet,
and videocassettes. Yet, in this field, as in others, mergers and acquisitions
have concentrated ownership to the detriment of local industry. The Hollywood
film industry represented 70% of the European market in 1996, more than double
what it was a decade earlier, and constituted 86% of the Latin American market.
In the opposite direction, traditional cultures across the world are being
transmitted and revived in multiethnic states through the movement of peoples,
their languages, and their beliefs.
Economic globalization has been criticized for protecting investors to the
detriment of local people, arguably increasing unemployment and underemployment.
To make conditions better for investors, the World Bank and IMF impose economic
"reform" that may lead to human rights violations, including an increase in
infant and child mortality rates.[11] In addition, structural reform usually mandatestrade liberalization, something industrialized countries have not been
similarly pressured to do. States may or may not be weakened, but the weakest
within states are further marginalized. Lack of accountability results from the
inability to exercise rights of political participation or information about key
decisions. Structural adjustment may require cutting public expenditure for
health and education, social security, and housing. Labor deregulation,
privatization, and export-oriented production increase income disparity and
marginalization in many countries.This leaves the main function of the state to
be policing and security, which may lead either to increased political
repression or to violent protests and political destabilization.
According to the independent expert appointed by the U.N. to study the impact of
structural adjustment programs on human rights, there are two main consequences
of such programs. First, they have led to a significant erosion of the living
standards of the poor and investment in the productive sectors of many
countries; second, such countries have ceded their right to independently
determine their country’s development priorities . According to the expert,
structural adjustment shifted from being a mechanism to handle national debt
into a vehicle for deregulation, trade liberalization, and privatization—all
reducing the role of the state in national development. Properly structured debt
relief is essential to alleviate poverty and build democratic institutions.[12]
6. Global Health and the legal issues
The past two decades have brought revolutionary changes in global health, driven
by popular concern over the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), new
strains of influenza, and maternal mortality. International development
assistance for health - a crucial aspect of health cooperation - increased by a
factor of five, from $5.6 billion in 1990 to $28.1 billion in 2012, with the
private and voluntary sectors taking on an ever-increasing share of the total.
Given the rapid globalization that is a defining feature of today's world, the
need for a robust system of global health law has never been greater. Global
health law is not an organized legal system, with a unified treaty monitoring
body, such as the World Trade Organization. However, there is a network of
treaties and so-called "soft" law instruments that powerfully affect global
health, many of which have arisen under the auspices of the World Health
Organization (WHO). Global health law has been defined as the legal norms,
processes, and institutions that are designed primarily to attain the highest
possible standard of physical and mental health for the world's population.
Global health law can affect multiple spheres, ranging from national security,
economic prosperity, and sustainable development to human rights and social
justice. Each global health problem is shaped by the language of rights, duties,
and rules for engagement used in the law.
Despite the potential of soft and hard instruments to set norms and mobilize
multiple actors, global health laws have major limitations .First, governments
are loath to constrain themselves and, therefore, often reject international law
or agree only to weak norms. Second, high-income countries are reluctant to
finance capacity building in lower-income countries or to provide funding to the
WHO without specific earmarks. And third, compliance mechanisms for such laws
are often weak or nonexistent. Because international law primarily addresses the
rights and duties of countries, it cannot easily govern nonstate actors, which
range from individuals and civil-society groups to foundations and private
enterprises. Although newer global health institutions (e.g., UNAIDS, Global
Fund, and GAVI Alliance) include civil-society representatives on their
governing boards, the WHO has resisted nonstate participation in its governing
structures.
The political, legal, economic and social contours of the current international
landscape present major challenges for global health governance. If ameliorating
the most common causes of disease, disability and premature death require global
solutions, then the future is demoralizing. The states that bear the
disproportionate burden of disease have the least capacity to do anything about
it. And the states that have the wherewithal are deeply resistant to expending
the political capital and economic resources necessary to truly make a
difference to improve health outside their borders. When rich countries do act,
it is often more out of narrowly perceived national interests or humanitarian
instinct than a full sense of ethical or legal obligation. The result is a
spiralling deterioration of health in the poorest regions, with manifest global
consequences for cross-border disease transmission and systemic effects on
trade, international relations and security. For global health law to be an
effective means of stopping this disastrous dynamic, the international community
must overcome four ‘grand challenges’ in global health law, i.e., enduring,
hard-to-solve obstacles to utilizing law as an effective tool for achieving
global health with justice (Gates Foundation, 2003).
State-centricity in the international legal system.
Skewed-priority setting.
Flawed implementation and compliance.
Fragmentation, duplication and lack of coordination.
A fundamental challenge of global health governance is the state-centric nature
of international law. Although there has been significant encroachment on the
power of states through the process of globalization, they remain the dominant
actors in the international legal system. As discussed above, states are the
primary subjects of public international law—including international public
health law—and, thus, international law sources primarily address the rights and
duties of state actors.
A critical limitation of the state-centric nature of international law is its
inability to incorporate nonstate actors in the legal framework for global
health governance. The international legal system is primarily concerned with
states powers, responsibilities and relationships in the international
community. However, as described above, nonstate actors ranging from civil
society to foundations to private enterprises are playing increasingly important
roles in global health governance. While WHO and other international
organizations do interact with nonstate actors and incorporate them within
global health governance through such means as public-private partnerships and
participation in global health forums, international law does not provide a
sufficient basis to fully realize the potential synergies of collaboration among
stakeholders. Thus, international law needs to evolve to recognize their
existence and to establish instruments and structures that will allow them to
coordinate with each other and state actors to advance equitable global health.
The state-centric nature of international law poses other major obstacles to the
use of global health law as an effective tool to advance global health
cooperation. The idea that sovereign states are the organizing principle of
international relations and, thus, are the focus of international law, has a
number of important implications. The overriding principle of sovereignty makes
international law fundamentally different from domestic law. In particular,
international law is largely voluntary: there is generally no supranational
authority to develop and enforce law against sovereign states. In treaties, the
primary source of global health law today, states establish international legal
rules by expressly consenting to them. Because states are generally loath to
sacrifice their freedom of action through the codification of binding
international law, treaties are most often far from sufficiently comprehensive
and tend to incorporate limited obligations. Moreover, the drive to establish
universal consensus in contemporary treaty negotiations often leads to the
codification of fairly weak treaty commitments or what is known as ‘lowest
common denominator’ standards. Overall, the implications of the voluntary and
decentralized nature of the codification and implementation of international law
permeate and deepen the remaining grand challenges of global health law.
Priority Setting
In contemporary global health governance, states are apparently unwilling to
develop international legal instruments that create binding and meaningful
obligations and incentives, and provide deep funding or services for the
protection of the world's poorest people. As a consequence of the voluntary
nature of international law and the overriding principle of sovereignty, states
have established only a limited legal framework for national action and
international cooperation to advance domestic and global public health. But this
is exactly what is required to address the most intractable problems in global
health.
Implementation and Compliance
In the state-centric international legal system, the law that is made and the
law that is implemented depend upon the will of states. As states are generally
unwilling to subject themselves to international scrutiny and accountability,
treaties by and large are typically marked by inadequate mechanisms to promote
national compliance. Although perceptions of sovereignty are slowly changing,
state consent to strong and meaningful implementation mechanisms remains rare
because states are concerned that international institutions charged with
implementing legal obligations will interpret their authority to be more
expansive than that granted to them by states, thereby impinging on state
autonomy.
Thus, in the state-centric international legal system, it is not surprising that
there is no meaningful dispute settlement body in global health law today.
Although the lack of concrete
normative standards and capacity to assure effective implementation is an
endemic problem in international law, it is a particularly acute problem in the
economic and social arenas, including global health law. Most international
instruments relating to health contain few incentives or options to encourage or
promote compliance.
Fragmentation, Duplication and Lack of Coordination
one of the most striking characteristics of the emerging domain of global health
law is the proliferation of organizations contributing to the elaboration of
this increasingly complex and multi-faceted field. These organizations include
the UN and its agencies (primarily WHO), organs and other bodies, and
international and regional institutions outside the UN system. Overall, an
increasing number of international organizations with lawmaking authority and
relevant mandates are serving as platforms for global health law negotiations,
while others are influencing contemporary lawmaking in this realm.
The harmonization of governmental interests, moreover, can be difficult because
of the disparate perspectives.Although high-income countries often favour trade
liberalization, low- and middle income countries seek greater access to drugs
and the fruits of technological progress. In 2001, World Trade Organization
members adopted the Doha Declaration on TRIPS (the Agreement on Trade-Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and Public Health, which allowed
countries to issue a compulsory license during a public health emergency,
granting to itself or a third party the right to produce or import a patented
drug without authorization from the patent holder. So-called "TRIPS
flexibilities" were designed to ensure that intellectual property should not
prevent countries from providing affordable access to essential medications in a
public health emergency.[13]
Increasingly, the reconciliation of these interests occurs at the national
level. For example, in 2013, the Supreme Court of India held that Novartis did
not have a valid patent in India on the lucrative cancer drug Gleevec.[14]The
court ruled that Indian law grants patents only to new compounds and that
modified drugs must improve treatment for patients. The decision could embolden
other emerging economies to reject similar intellectual-property claims. At the
same time, developed countries are seeking stricter intellectual-property
protection in trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which
seeks to promote trade and investment among the partner countries.
Trust in international organizations to act impartially and demonstrate
leadership is crucial to the future of global health law. As new health security
challenges arise, the integrity and efficient functioning of the WHO becomes
ever more important. The WHO, however, is struggling with a small group of
donors that contribute approximately 80% of its total budget.The term for this
type of financing is "multi-bi" aid — donors' earmarking of noncore funding for
specific sectors, diseases, or regions through multilateral agencies.Since the
leadership of the WHO is unable to control most of its budget, these aid
arrangements endanger the perceived independence and normative influence of the
WHO.
Financing is intricately related to the challenge of building capacity to
fulfill duties created by global health law. The 2011 review committee on the
functioning of the International Health Regulations stressed that many countries
lacked capacity and were not on a path to fulfill their obligations. The same
failure to mobilize resources has plagued WHO normative development in such
areas as achieving ambitious goals set forth in action plans on non communicable
diseases and mental health.[15]
ConCLUSIon
If global community is emerging, at least in a limited form, then we need a
global public law to structure it. This is the transformative challenge for
international law and legal theory today: to move from the public law of
inter-state relations, to the public law of a global community of persons. This
will involve many theoretical and doctrinal tasks. At their core, these new
tasks involve a global system for safeguarding and delivering what can be called
the "global basic package," a basic bundle of political social and economic
rights everyone is entitled to as a function of their humanity, and which is
safeguarded and delivered, at the primary level, by the global. This list can
be drawn in a variety of ways, but involves at a minimum the following four
elements: security, subsistence, liberty, voice. We see the germ of a global
basic package today in international human rights law, humanitarian aid, and the
notion of humanitarian intervention. International law today already recognizes
a core commitment to deliver basic rights, subsistence food and shelter, and
some minimum level of security, as a function of our basic humanity. In reality,
this often amounts to very little, when it amounts to anything at all: a food
package, a blue helmet in the vicinity, and an occasional visit by an
international human rights investigator. There are two fundamental gaps: the
absence of effective mechanisms for global wealth transfers at the scale
necessary to support the global basic package; and the absence of effective
political representation or voice at the global level. How we get there, and in
the process go from international law to global public law, will require a
profound re-examination of core international legal doctrines and institutions
such as boundaries, sovereignty, legitimacy, citizenship, and the territorial
control of resources.
The absence of global institutions capable of giving everyone both the
resources reflected in this basic package, and a voice in formulating this
basic package, is a fundamental gap in the global basic structure as it stands
today. We are indebted to the anti globalization protests for building
awareness of this problem, and for reminding us that the creation of a global
market society need not result in a global laissez faire market culture. We must
recall, however, that the progression towards globalization is not inevitable or
linear, nor is the achievement of a just globalization. The task of
international legal theory, or global legal theory as we now might call it, is
to draw upon both traditional domestic political theory, and innovative studies
of our new global social reality, to design the next generation of global
institutions and doctrines capable of delivering global justice for a global
community.
A quantum leap into cyberspace has indeed transformed our vast world into a
"global village." For good or ill, it has breached natural and artificial
barriers among nations, thus facilitating the exchange of commodities, services,
information and technology, and the adoption of social and cultural patterns.
For lack of a "filtering device" and an effective mechanism, it has not been
possible to treat countries even-handedly resulting in preferential treatment of
some at the expense of others or in the dissemination of undesirable, even
dangerous information. For mutual protection and closer coordination, countries
are constrained to set up tighter networking systems and enter into multilateral
agreements culminating in treaties, conventions, resolutions, and various kinds
of modus Vivendi. All too soon, mankind has realized that it has to accept the
evils of globalization along with its blessings. To ask whether it is a boon or
a bane is posing a rhetorical question. What is certain is that this relatively
recent phenomenon is raising legal challenges never anticipated in the past.
Leaders and the governed alike are forced to draw upon their reserves of
creativity, imagination, foresight, and intuition to cope with, and possibly
rein in, a juggernaut in the making. Indeed, a multitude of legal problems and
issues have sprung, which continue to call for innovative legal solutions that
could keep a pace with the dizzying rate of change. It behooves all of us,
therefore, particularly lawyers and judges, to be mindful of the role each one
can play in the ever-expanding world of the law for it is the rule of law that
makes the attainment of lasting peace and harmony possible. It is the rule of
law that enables us to preserve time-honored institutions which are the
hallmarks of civilized society. It is the rule of law that empowers us to do
what we have to do now so that our children can survive in an increasingly
competitive world
End-Notes
[1] LL.M scholar, Department of Law, University of Kashmir.
[2] See generally, PCIJ, "Lotus" Case, PCIJ, Series A., No. 10, 1927, 4-108, 25;
"Trail-Smelter" Case, 1938/1941, Reports of International Arbitral Awards Vol.
III, 1905-1982.
[3] D. Pieters, "Social Security Law and the Challenge of Globalization
[4] Rieko Karatani, ‘How History Separated Refugee and Migrant Regimes: In Search of Their 
Institutional Origins’, Volume II Chapter 1; p. 5.
[5] Ibid, pp. 18-24.
[6] See the Migration for Employment Convention of 1949 (No. 97) (C97) and the Migrant Workers 
(Supplementary Provisions) Convention of 1975 (No. 143) (C143).
[7] (summarizing the development and codification of war crimes in, inter alia,
the Lieber Code (1863), the Oxford Manual (1880), and the Hague Conventions
(1899 and 1907)
[8] See id. at 333 ("For the first time non-national, or multi-national,
institutions were established for the purpose of prosecuting and punishing
crimes having an international dimension and scope.").
[9] SeeUNCTAD, World Investment Report 1994: Transnational Corporations,
Employment and the Workplace260 (1994).
[10] See 1999World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization,
Gender and Work:Report of the Secretary General, at 9, 54th. Sess., U.N. Doc.
A/54/227, U.N. Sales No. E.99.IV.8 (1999)
[11] SeeStatement by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights,Globalization and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(May,
1998),athttp://www.unhchr.ch/ html/menu2/6/cescrnote.htm#note18h [hereinafter
Statement,Globalization].
[12] The debt burden of the thirty-three poorest countries of the world
collectively amounts to $127 billion owed to industrialized countries and
institutions. In Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world, 30% of
all revenue goes to debt servicing
[13] World Trade Organization. Doha WTO Ministerial 2001: TRIPS,
WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2, 20 November 2001: Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and
public health, adopted 14
November2001(http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_trips_e.htm
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