The rights of humans? The previous question is what individuals protest for and what large organizations are focused on. But does the term human rights make sense? What is it exactly? Is it the end result of the gathering of the most powerful men in the world? Or is it the conclusion of most protestor’s cries for equality within their country? Human rights is the most important gift given at birth. It allows us to speak and commit legal and constitutional acts freely. But when a strong term such as this is protested for, we must ask ourselves if all humans are allowed to practice it in every country. If so, to what extent? The main focus of human rights writers and activists is in concern to the extent of unlawful treatment such as conquering of land from indigenous people in most if not all third world countries. We have learned that most problems in the world are blamed on one word, globalization, but it takes several words to fix the ongoing problem of globalization and its affects. The capital and injustice in Latin America has shown to be one of the reasons for such concern of the extent globalization has taken with the lack of correspondence of human rights. Urbanization has expanded to this extent at the exploitation of the indigenous peoples human rights. The affect of modernizing countries (globalization) is thought to be a main contributor to the lack of human rights in most third world countries. Richard L. Harris in his article on Capital, inequality and injustice in Latin America, believes that “ The ‘globalization’ or increasing integration of the region into the global capitalist system has not propelled the Latin American peoples into a new era of post-modernity”(3). In his essay Harris attempts to provide a global perspective on the major structures that have shaped and are currently shaping the political, economic and culture in Latin America. He feels that the “ The contemporary e...
