The aim of the article is to analyse the problem of civic initiatives, leading to the answer to the question concerning changes in emerging and functioning of civic initiatives in Poland, influenced by the Internet. However communication possibilities, offered by the Web, enable functioning of professionally organized initiatives, leading to real results, inspired by the patterns from consolidated democracies, it is worth emphasizing that the subjects and motivations of organizers and members of the initiatives have not changed, contrary to the methods of action and of leading to the aims.
Artykuł porusza zagadnienie wpływu, jaki wywierają globalne nierówności na stabilność społeczeństwa globalnego. Autorka stawia pytanie o przyczyny zaistnienia globalnych nierówności, przedstawia związek między globalizacją a istnieniem globalnych nierówności, a także związki między funkcjonowaniem reguł wolnego rynku a powiększającą się nierównością między Północą a Południem. Autorka sugeruje ponadto pewne rozwiązania problemu.
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The article analyses the impact of inequalities on the stability of the global society. The author asks questions concerning the reasons for global inequalities. The link between globalization and global inequalities is presented as well as the connections between the free market rules and the growing gap between the North and the South. Some solutions to the problem are also suggested.
Human rights are “basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled”. Proponents of the concept usually assert that all humans are endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human. Human rights are thus conceived in a universalist and egalitarian fashion. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities, as justifi ed moral norms or natural rights supported by strong reasons, or as legal rights either at a national level or within international law. However, there is no consensus as to the precise nature of what in particular should or should not be regarded as a human right in any of the preceding senses, and the abstract concept of human rights has been a subject of intense philosophical debate and criticism. As the new millennium emerges, trends in global human rights are changing. Human rights issues are crossing sovereign boundaries and are no longer just issues of the state. As more and more non-governmental organizations are growing, and the Internet expands and facilitates a quicker spread of information, there are more and more people raising concerns about human rights related issues. Some of these come from the increasingly larger and infl uential commercial sector including large, multinational companies, while the others are raised by ordinary people, being parts of different networks. The aim of this article is to examine the way social networks influence and change the methods of raising the awareness concerning human rights on one hand, but, on the other hand, to analyse how new media contribute to deepening global inequalities.