PBS may take a little heat for airing this, but at least one network is talking seriously about this side of globalization, beyond more obvious problems in industrialized nations. The program will include discussion of gold mining in South Africa. Soros, Rubin, Gingrich and others' comments will be featured as shown in the third paragraph. I believe it is being aired tonight in some areas; PBS usually runs individual programs several times over a month period.
GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Uprisings in Indonesia, massive layoffs of miners in South Africa and
protests against child labor worldwide have all been reported as separate and distinct events. GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS, airing on PBS Thursday, October 29, 1998, 10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings), explores how these and other current events are linked to the forces of "globalization," the economic engine that is transforming the world in its own image. Host Charlayne Hunter-Gault anchors this informative primer about how the newly globalized economy is reorganizing the world. Should economic trade and investments be linked to promote human rights and democracy? Traveling from Switzerland to South Africa, and from Nigeria to Indonesia for conversations with government officials, human rights activists, corporate executives and financial speculators, the program dissects globalization and examines its impact on the rights of people worldwide.
GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS takes viewers on a journey that starts in the Swiss Alps at a summit for corporate decision-makers and travels deep into the gold mines of South Africa. From there, the program visits the controversial Shell oil fields of Nigeria and Nike shoe factories in Asia all the while exploring an emerging conflict in the new world order between those making macroeconomic decisions and those struggling to cope with the impact of those decisions.
Leading political and corporate figures such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, billionaire businessman/philanthropist George Soros and South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki join such human rights figures as Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, Amnesty International Secretary General Pierre Sane and labor leaders like AFL-CIO head John Sweeney in assessing the impact of globalization. At the core of the program is the ongoing debate over whether human rights concerns should be linked to economic policies.
GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS offers important background to the fall of longtime Indonesian dictator Suharto and Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha. It takes viewers behind-the-scenes to look at the role played by giant and powerful transnational corporations like Shell Oil, Nike and multinational global agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It also documents the response of workers and labor organizations, citizens groups and human rights activists to the rapidly changing world order, and features exclusive footage of the world's first Global March against child labor.
GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS is part of PBS' commitment to bring viewers the best in current affairs programming.
Day & time: check with your local station
Underwriters: Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ruben & Elisabeth Rausing Trust, Roddick Foundation, Independent Television Service (ITVS), John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy and Newman's Own. Producer: Globalvision, Inc. Executive producers: Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter. Format: CC STEREO.
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