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Today, all the talk is of globalization. But far too often,

both its advocates and its critics have portrayed globalization as

an exclusively economic and technological phenomenon. In fact,

in the new millennium, there are at least three universal

languages: money, the Internet, and democracy and human rights.

A third aspect of globalization — the rise of transnational human

rights networks of both public and private actors — has helped

develop what may over the time become an international civil

society capable of working with governments, international

institutions, and multinational corporations to promote both

democracy and the standards embodied in the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights.

The great American civil rights' leader Martin Luther

King Jr. acknowledged the interrelatedness of all communities

and states (…) caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,

tied in a single garment of destiny. What Dr. King understood,

even 40 years ago, was the need — in an increasingly

interdependent world — for governments, businesses, NGO's,

and individuals to work together as agents of change.

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An international civil society could play the role of weakening human rights.