But growing disparity, corporate power, and environmental destruction has overshadowed the hope for a global civil society, a global community. ... While each of these issues, no matter how few or many protest them, hold importance, some are more convincing reasons for protest than others. ... Even if a global civil society could occur and the gap between the rich and the poor was lessened, "haves" and the "have-nots" would still exist. ... Labor, for instance, raises a number of questions: If we accept that conditions of workers are not as they should be, what can we do? ... The ideology ...

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Also, the WTO rules do not allow a country to favour the imports of one country over those from another. ... The UN has sponsored a Global Compact to establish and promote a shared set of core values in the areas of labour standards, human rights and environmental practices between the UN and the business community The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) develops economic and social policy for its 29 members, which include the countries of North America, Western Europe (including Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. ... Th...

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For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do much to enhance the power of markets and create a sense of the economic irrelevance of national borders. ... [i]f we do not have greater equity and social justice, there will be no political stability and without political stability no amount of money put together in financial packages will give us financial stability'.2 Wolfenson's words, even if they appear to invert justice and stability as 'means' and 'ends'...

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