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1 Recent developments throughout the world, including failed states, economic deregulation, privatization, and trade liberalization across borders—components of what has come to be known as globalization—have led to the emergence of powerful non-state actors who have resources sometimes greater than those of many states. International human rights law aims primarily to protect individuals and groups from abusive action by states and state agents. This Article concludes that responses to globalization are significantly changing international law and institu-tions in order to protect persons from violations of human rights committed by non-state actors. It then considers several legal responses to globalization as they relate to the promotion and protection of human rights. This Article looks at the legal frameworks for globalization and for human rights, then asks to what extent globalization is good for human rights and to what extent human rights are good for globalization. While globalization has enhanced the ability of civil society to function across borders and promote human rights, other actors have gained the power to violate human rights in unforeseen ways.

This development poses challenges to international human rights law, because for the most part that law has been designed to restrain abuses by powerful states and state agents. PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD Dinah Shelton *Ībstract: The shift in sovereignty accompanying globalization has meant that non-state actors are more involved than ever in issues relating to human rights. PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD