2. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio1 Globalisation and the world of work

3. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio2 1) What does globalization mean? 2) Ungoverned globalization 3) The trade union movement

4. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio3 Globalization today

5. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio4 Interlinked world: New technologies More open policies Economic relations Social and political interaction

6. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio5 » awareness of belonging to a global community

7. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio6 » globalization as a process which demands rules

8. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio7 Contradictions: Growth/inequalities Differences / homologation New negative energies / strenghts

9. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio8 Immediate effects: More commercial exchanges More foreign investments More weight of international business Better access to communications Transformation in the life styles

10. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio9 The growth of global markets has not got a parallel development of economic and social institutions

11. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio10 In the last 20 years unregulated globalization…. Has deepened the gaps Has strengthened a neo-liberist economic model

12. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio11 In the last 20 years, unregulated globalization has implied…. …the adoption of privatization policies …the worsening of living conditions …more attacks against the trade union rights …more precarisation and incertitude

13. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio12 In the last 20 years, unregulated globalization has increased… …the gap between North and South and …people awareness of inequalities

14. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio13 The objective must be the globalisation process to be “fair” meaning that: It does not exclude anybody It is democratic It can guarantee opportunities and advantages for all

15. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio14 Global economy  Unregulated competition  Unprotected labor

16. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio15 1,5 billion of people live in poverty (-than 2 US$ per day) 500 million live in extreme poverty (-than 1 US$ per day)

17. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio16 20% of world population living in the high income countries dominates 86% of the world wealth

18. Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio17 95% of working children live in the developing countries

19. 28,000 children die from poverty-related causes everyday Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio18

20. - 115 million school-aged children are not in school - 133 million young people cannot read and write Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio19

21. Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio20

22. Over 11 million children under the age of five die each year, most from preventable diseases Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio21

23. Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio22

24. Cows receive more aid than people (Europe’s cows receive $2/day in subsidies) Many developing countries spend more on interest repayments on their debt than they do on health and education combined Only 5 of the world’s rich countries give the amount of aid they committed to in 1970 Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio23

25. - More than 500,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every year - More than 50 million women suffer from poor reproductive health and serious pregnancy- related illness and disability Global rightsSilvana Cappuccio24