Globalization with a Human Face - Benefitting All
Eduardo Aninat, Hans D’Orville, Hasan Talal, Soisk Habret, Dongcheng Hu, Seung Han, Yasuko Ikenobo, Tomonobu Imamichi, Sergey Kapitza, Akira Kojima, Koichiro Matsuura, Sergio Peña-Neira, Jan Pronk, Moeen Qureshi, Fidel Ramos, Balthas Seibold, Joel Shelton, Aminata Tarore, Shinako Tsuchiya, Andreas Agt et al. (2004). Globalization with a Human Face - Benefitting All. UNESCO-UNU International Conference. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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Sub-type Working paper Author Eduardo Aninat
Hans D’Orville
Hasan Talal
Soisk Habret
Dongcheng Hu
Seung Han
Yasuko Ikenobo
Tomonobu Imamichi
Sergey Kapitza
Akira Kojima
Koichiro Matsuura
Sergio Peña-Neira
Jan Pronk
Moeen Qureshi
Fidel Ramos
Balthas Seibold
Joel Shelton
Aminata Tarore
Shinako Tsuchiya
Andreas Agt
Ginkel, Hans vanEditor Balthas Seibold Title Globalization with a Human Face - Benefitting All Series Title UNESCO-UNU International Conference Publication Date 2004 Place of Publication Paris Publisher United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Pages CCXVI, 216 Language eng Abstract The social, human and cultural dimensions of development and globalization have been at the core of the work of UNESCO. Today, more than ever, the challenge of achieving “globalization with a human face” is immense. In quantitative terms, the scale of global inequities is shocking. Around the world, 1.2 billion people are living on one dollar a day or less. Indeed, the persistence of extreme poverty is the clearest sign that globalization is not working for humanity as a whole. According to UNESCO’s latest estimates, there are 862 million illiterate adults and 115 million children who are out-of-school. In other words, close to one billion men, women and children have not received a basic education, which is the very minimum for effective participation in today’s globalizing societies. Furthermore, 1.2 billion people – one-fifth of the world’s population – have no access to safe drinking water, and nearly 2.5 billion people – 40 percent of the inhabitants of our planet – have no access to basic sanitary facilities. Clearly, the very basics of a healthy and dignified human life are far from universally available. And, in the very areas where globalization is supposed to be changing our lives most dramatically – communication and information – enormous gaps still remain. For example, the levels for fixed line and mobile telephones are 121.1 per 100 inhabitants in developed countries, 18.7 in developing countries, and just 1.1 in the least developed countries. Meanwhile, the 400,000 citizens of Luxembourg share more international Internet bandwidth than Africa’s 760 million citizens. One might conclude from all these figures that perhaps one-third of humanity has yet to enter the twentieth, let alone the twenty-first, century. In addition, globalization is generating new problems and challenges. In many areas of life, the ethical ground is shifting beneath our feet due to the very rapidity of scientific and technological change, which is outstripping our capacity to devise appropriate ethical, political and social responses. For example, today’s debates in the field of bioethics, such as those concerning human cloning, deal with unprecedented issues in the history of ethical discourse. New information and communication technologies (ICTs) are also creating new kinds of problems, such as those regarding content. Meanwhile, long-established assumptions about the meaning of “quality” in educational terms are coming under renewed scrutiny. The very nature of globalization requires the development of knowledge, values, skills and behaviours that enable young people to cope with complexity and change. As we enter the twenty-first century, educational processes must generate appropriate forms of learning – how to live together, how to be tolerant and respectful of diversity, how to respect one another’s rights and how to build a sustainable future. It is against this background of new challenges and problems, especially the large-scale inequities evident in the distribution of globalization’s benefits, that the phrase “globalization with a human face” acquires its meaning and significance. It is a phrase with certain connotations. UNBIS Thesaurus SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
CULTURAL HERITAGE
GLOBALIZATION
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