Globalization and Human Rights EDITED BY Alison Brysk UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London, 2002.

 Human Rights, Globalizing Flows, and State Power Jack Donnelly

„Brysk offers a “consensus” definition of globalization: the growing interpenetration of

states, markets, people, and ideas across territorial boundaries. „
 Human rights are not politically or morally neutral. Quite the contrary, they privilege certain
social groups, practices, and values, while marginal- izing others.
 International human rights law permit states to deny noncitizen residents many rights,
including rights of political participation and some economic and social rights.
 The lesson of the past two decades is that pretty much every place where people have been
given a free choice, they have chosen human rights.