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Has globalization done more harm or good for the promotion of human rights?

There are questions which don’t have a direct answer to, but people can answer it with their own beliefs and evidences. First of all starting with the meaning of globalization. It is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale. In other words, it is also a worldwide international movement toward development in economy, finance, trade and communications integration. But we are well aware that the promotion of human rights depends on the type of globalization the country or the ‘big hands’ choose. As we all know that everything has a good and a bad side, there is one for this too. If the economy runs bad because of poor management of globalization and fall of power in the bad hands, more people will get poverty which makes them unlikely to enjoy their economic human rights. But if the globalization runs well with the economy, this means people can enjoy their economic rights well. But with globalization comes spread in knowledge and ideas which helps in promotion of human rights. Countries also gain more respect therefore, they strive to protect and promote human rights in order to keep that respect flowing. In generalization as knowledge spreads people would have greater ideas and try to inspire and motivate others, the same step which big countries such as America would imply. The other effect of globalization is also spreading of cultures from all around the world which makes people from different cultures and rites to live in a small place to make others inspire of international co-operation which can be a lot of help to us when coming to the future where we can be in trouble. The spreading of international cultures also bring positive influence towards the rules and the rights of countries such as basic rights of education to poor children in poor countries such as Laos and mostly girls in Southern Asia. Political rights will also be mended because of change in government rules which help us bring peace to the world and end conflicts if they can understand each other. But if you see in a large scale, people are mostly been positively influential with the idea of globalization. Therefore, we can see that globalization has done more good than harm to the society on the promotion of human rights.

Scramble For Africa

The history of “Scramble for Africa” began when Belgium read a report about the rich Gold Mine in Congo and ordered to build an International African Association, to take control over Congo Basin and gain profit from the Gold mine. The association created definitions for ‘effective occupation’ and ‘economic development’. Within forty years of order from King Loepold for Europe, to sprung into action, Britain claimed and dominated the breadth of the African Continent ranging from Egypt to South Africa.

The statement says, “The Scramble for Africa was the only way to ‘deal’ with the African continent and the African people”. I don’t agree with this statement because after invading Africa, the Africans were treated as slaves and sold to market when they had done nothing wrong.

After European power claimed the continent, none of the African countries were free to do what they liked. And as according to the association, Europeans developed the economy in Africa but the Africans were not treated the same way. They were treated as a lower race and due to this reason, started the slave market. Europeans began to trade slaves in trying to become a rich man and this was started by the Portugese where they transported them to Europe. It was very hard to get away from slavery once they were into it. If they made a mistake, they were harshly beaten close to death. Slaves were even raped by their masters. This was not a way to treat African people and they did not deserve it because they had done nothing wrong that harmed the Europeans. So if the Europeans had wanted economic development and effective occupation in Africa as a way to gain profit for themselves, they could have just helped them as allies or asked for help for their economy instead of evading and trading African people to slaves and sending them to America, which deprived them off their own nationality and race. Hence, I disagree with the statement, “The Scramble for Africa was the only way to ‘deal’ with the African continent and the African people” because they didn’t do anything due to which they deserved the bad treatment.

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