l judicial body to control these elements. The fight against global crime requires national police to take cooperative action as rapidly as the crime syndicates do. Business ethics also come into question when in a far away land. When the profit motives of market players get out of hand, they challenge people’s ethics – and sacrifice respect for justice and human rights. When the market goes too far in dominating social and political outcomes, the opportunities and rewards of globalization spread unequally and inequitably – concentrating power and wealth in a select group of people, nations and corporations, marginalizing the others. The pressures of global competition have led countries and employers to adopt more flexible labor policies with more precarious work arrangements. One of the most sensitive issues in recent news is the grasp pharmaceutical industries have on the health of people around the world, and how unashamed they are to withhold it from many, especially AIDS related drugs. Ghanaian President John Kufuor said he hoped the result of the conference would be cheap generic drugs. “We will be calling on the international community as a whole to make drugs more accessible and affordable to all, especially Africa, since Africa is the continent that suffers the most.” 39 pharmaceutical companies have gone to court to block legislation passed in 1997 which they say will give the South African health minister blanket powers to import or manufacture cheaper versions of brand-name drugs. The companies maintain the 1997 law puts the future of the industry at risk, threatening the profits that allow them to create and test new drugs. “This legal challenge is a warning to other developing countries that many within the world’s pharmaceutical industry will use any tactic to defend their patents, whatever the cost in human suffering,” the organizations Oxfam and Medecins Sa...
