Globalization and the protection of human rights in the digital world

Abstract

This article examines the globalization process and the emergence of the information society, analyzing the resulting impacts on human rights. It also deals with how technology has contributed to accelerate asymmetries in the contemporary world, while allowing waves of resistance, generated quickly and dynamically from the mass of available knowledge, allowing articulation between groups of individuals around varied social and environmental agendas. Dealing with this challenge leads to the need to build the foundations, including the protection of rights, for technological, political, economic and cultural cooperation that allows taking advantage of the digital world and its potential for connections and mobility to propose effective and equitable solutions to problems of the world.

Keywords

• globalização. sociedade da informação. direitos humanos. privacidade.