Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 8

Globalization, human rights and women: An analysis

  • Author:
  • Chandan Kumar Dan
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • Page Number: 73 to 88

Lecturer, M.U.C.Women's College, Burdwan, West Bengal, India

Online published on 13 August, 2013.

Abstract

The process of globalization has extended the nude practice of human rights violation of women. Even today in this globalized world women have to fight for their rights that men have already been granted as they are considered human. This paper identifies and focuses upon the following key factors of violation of women human rights, which are direct/indirect consequences of globalization: working sector, sex-trafficking, food security and environment, pornography and eve teasing.

Keywords

EPZ, SAP, Chunakara, Ishay, ‘unemployment’ ‘remittance’, ‘sex-trafficking’, ‘pornography’, ‘eve teasing’