ABSTRACT
As the previous contributions to this book have illustrated, both human rights and social issues are deeply implicated in the interdependence between the European Union (EU) and the social dimension of globalization. The emphasis in this chapter is on the EU’s international promotion of the rights of the child, a subject that brings together questions of EU governance, globalization, human rights and social issues. The issue of the rights of the child fundamentally challenges the sort of internal-external distinctions that structure most of our ways of thinking about the social dimension of globalization. The techno-global pleasures of our everyday lives, whether it is mobile communications, the internet, cheap clothing or the global travel that we so frequently enjoy, are precisely the kinds of products and activities that can act against the rights of the child (RoC).
