Description
THIS book demonstrates that the New World Order (NWO) will not protect the human rights of the vast majority of mankind because the power structure of the NWO is grossly iniquitous. Power is overwhelmingly in the grip of the North with the media, international economic institutions and arrangements and even the United Nations, especially the Security Council, playing a supporting role in perpetuating the injustices of the existing global system.
It shows that the NWO is a catch-phrase to perpetuate a pattern of Western domination and control that has existed for the past two hundred years. In this context it examines a number of specific episodes in the post Cold-War period the period of the NWO, to understand the character and content of domination and control. Iraq and Libya, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Somalia, zionism and apartheid are studied to show the dominant North's bias, double standards and selective response to human rights violations.
It also discusses how the North have narrowed the meaning of human rights itself to individual civil and political rights so as to perpetuate their dominance. A compelling argument is made for a more holistic approach to human rights that gives equal attention to economic, social and cultural rights besides civil and political rights. The powerful North are the transgressors not the protectors of human rights. It is for citizens' groups in the North and South opposed to domination and control in the global system to forge links to evolve a just world order which transcends the existing divisions within the human family.
ISBN: 983986100X
