Chapter 11: Gender and Globalization: Engendering Social and Environmental Justice by Globalizing Women’s Human Rights

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2011

Editor(s)

Shawkat Alam, Natalie Klein, and Juliette Overland

ISBN

9780415499101

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Language

en-US

Abstract

This chapter has three parts. The first part deconstructs the position of gender in global economic integration, considering how conventional gender roles have served to advance the process of globalisation and how globalisation is serving to alter the paradigm of conventional gender roles: gender discrimination drives globalisation. The second part describes the growing power and prominence of global networks promoting gender equality and environmental justice led by women: globalisation may disrupt gender discrimination. The third part discusses the constructive role that international human rights law could play in the process of facilitating social and environmental justice in an increasingly integrated interconnected and interrelated world. It is the duty of States, despite differences in political, economic and social and cultural systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms. It is the responsibility of non-State transnational actors, such as the multinational corporations, which fuel economic globalisation, to respect human rights. It is up to civil society to demand accountability and remedies for the human rights abuses associated with the processes that characterise the current period of globalisation. Potentially, integrating the efforts of government, industry and civil society to respect women’s rights as human rights could mean all the difference in women’s lives.

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