Globalizing Rights

This book is based on the prestigious Oxford Amnest Lecture series. Contributors from writers such as Noam Chomsky, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhabha, Susan George, and Joseph Stiglitz, and Richard Rorty invesitigate the relationships between globalization and human rights. they challenge, from a wide variety of perspectives, the view that the development of global markets and global investment, together with the widespread circulation of information on which this depends, make human rights abuses less likely.