Universal Human Rights and Democracy

To what extent should I, as a citizen, respond to globalization?

Human rights should be universal. Every human being should have his or her basic needs met, such as food and water. This responsibility would best go under the national government. Some people hold the view that traditions come over human rights but if a tradition abuses human rights then someone is getting hurt. If you truly wanted to continue with one of these traditions then you would need the person, whose rights are abused, permission.

Simply because a country is a democracy doesn’t mean that it will protect human rights. That is true of any kind of government but a government that is majority rules has a better odds of protecting them then in hierarchy or in communist societies where one person has absolute power over the rest.