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Global Social Policy Principles;
Human Rights & Social Justice |
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Empowerment, Human Rights, Violence,
Democratic Participation, Employment, Health,
Education |
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| Author |
Clare Ferguson |
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Report |
| Date of Publication |
April 1999 |
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| Abstract |
The processes of globalisation have led, in
the last years of the twentieth century, to
the demand for the development of a universal
set of principles to guide social policy.
In the Harvard Lecture of December 1998, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the development
of such principles not only to ensure minimum
standards for every country in times of change
but to equip people to make the most of the
new opportunities that globalisation engenders
(Brown:1998). Social policy has, traditionally,
been undertaken and analysed at the national
level. Competition between countries to attract
trans-national corporations and common markets
in capital and labour, however, have generated
the need for supranational social policies
(Deacon 1997). It is suggested in this report
that the “global architecture” (Eyben
1998) of UN conventions, declarations and
world conference documents provides the most
authoritative available source for the principles
on which such principles could be constructed.
UN documentation provides an internationally
legitimised set of agreements on social, economic
and political issues . The UN framework is
constructed upon the concept of human rights
which acknowledges the entitlements and needs
of all people on the basis of their common
humanity and the obligations of all governments
to respect, protect and promote those rights.
The object of this report is to assess the
implications of this framework for the construction
of global social policy principles.
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