A/HRC/15/32 for instance that of corporations at the microlevel, States at the macrolevel and the international community at the mesolevel.5 44. Globalization has created rapid economic growth, but also fostered extreme inequality and underdevelopment. Some assert that world poverty represents a failure of the international community to see half the global population secure their basic socio-economic rights; that some States are constrained in their ability to fulfil their human rights obligations through actions and structural arrangements of other members of the international community and entrenched economic and political advantage; that it is necessary to rethink human rights and frame responsibilities essential to their protection; that there is a role for the international community in creating an environment conducive to human-centred development and globalization; and that the right to development is a key factor to meeting the challenges of poverty in the twenty-first century.6 45. At the eleventh session of the Working Group on the Right to Development, several Member States stressed the need for international cooperation, solidarity and international responsibility for creating an enabling global environment and adequate policy space for the realization of the right to development, especially in the areas of international aid, trade, debt, access to medicines, transfer of technology, environment and intellectual property rights (A/HRC/15/23). Similarly, it is beyond doubt that governance at the national level and good leadership are also key factors to achieving the right to development. The importance of both national and international dimensions, and of shared responsibilities by and mutual accountability of all were underlined by the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development in its reports submitted for its sixth session (A/HRC/15/WG.2/TF/2, Add.1 and 2). 46. The international sale of arms can destroy millions of lives, especially in countries affected by civil strife and with weak governance structures. The local and the global can no longer be separated; human rights must be integrated into governance at all levels. The breaking down of national borders means that everyday actions, purchases or investments can make a phenomenal difference to persons in the invisible world of the market. The unprecedented movement of people and goods across borders has led to increased challenges of a transboundary nature, such as human trafficking and the dumping of toxic wastes, which inevitably affect vulnerable people and nations. “The task before us is how to reconcile differences and create consensus, without resiling from the principle that respect for human rights is the ultimate foundation upon which rests the legitimacy of the actions of our Governments, our international institutions, our corporations and business enterprises, our organs of civil society, and ourselves, presently and in future.”7 National interests and the universal ethics of solidarity are closely connected, and in the words of a former Secretary-General “the simple fact of the matter is, if we cannot make globalization work for all, in the end it will work for none”.8 5 6 7 8 14 D. Aguirre, The Human Right to Development in a Globalized World, Ashgate, Hampshire, 2008. M.E. Salomon, Global Responsibility for Human Rights: World Poverty and the Development of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2007. See also N. Wood, “Governing the global economy: strengthening multilateral institutions”, International Peace Institute, 2008; and J.A. Ocampo, “Rethinking global economic and social governance”, vol. 1, Issue 1, Journal of Globalization and Development, 2010. D. Kinley, Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, p. 239. “Globalization must work for All”, Address to the World Economic Forum by Kofi Annan, Davos, Switzerland, 30 January 2001. GE.10-14914