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Health and Human Rights Flashcards

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What is the Happy Planet Index

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leading global measure of sustainable well being, created by the NEF (New Economics Foundation) so is reliable, combines the natural environment with the well being of people, doesn’t include a strong economic component

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What country has the highest HPI

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Costa Rica 64.0

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What country has a lower middle HPI

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Singapore 39.8

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What country has the lowest HPI

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Botswana 22.6

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What are the positives of using GDP

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Straight forward to calculate and allows for easy comparisons to be made

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What are negatives of using GDP

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measure of wealth only and assumes that its the only way to improve life, and assumes that wealth is equally distributed

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What is the Sharia Law

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Law of Islam used in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan

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What are some examples of laws in the Sharia Law

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Theft punishable by amputation of right hand, conversion to non-Islam punishable by DEATH, women cant drive cars

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In 2013 how many primary school children are not attending school

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59 million

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How does education help people

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The need for basic hygiene and healthcare, ways to control family size, how to become involved in decision making, their rights in the 21st century world

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what continent has the lowest amount of primary school girls out of school

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Africa

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how much lower is aboriginal life expectancy in Australia

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10.6 years lower for men and 9.5 years lower for women

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what is the definition of deprivation

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a situation of poor diet, housing and healthcare

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what is human capital

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the skills, knowledge and experience possessed by an organisation or country

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what socio economic group has the highest life expectancy and which has the lowest in the UK

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professional has the highest and unskilled the lowest

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how many physicians per million people are there in Zimbabwe

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83

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how many physicians per 1,000 people are there in the UK

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4

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how many people die a year from water borne diseases such as cholera

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840,000

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19
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what is the life expectancy in Zimbabwe

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59.4 years

20
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why is Cuba’s life expectancy the same as the USAs despite its relative poverty

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because they invested heavily into their healthcare, water supplies, sanitation and reducing disease

21
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what percent of people in Bulgaria are at risk of poverty

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40%

22
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how many American soldiers died in the war in Afghanistan

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2,175

23
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how many civilians died in the war in Afghanistan

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149,000 estimated

24
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what is an example of successful non-military action to bring about human rights change

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UN agencies involvement in the Ivory Coast with annual economic growth rate 9% since 2011

25
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how many people are currently in North Korean Prison Camps under Kim Jong Family

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80,000-120,000

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what are the conditions like in the prison camps in North Korea

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comparable to historic concentration camps, significant number of inmates have died each year since they are subject to torture and inhumane treatment

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what can be created when there is a removal of a regime

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long term power vacuum, also difficult to reunite and restructure countries after regime change

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what percent of girls in Afghanistan are literate compared to the percent of women and what does this suggest about military intervention in 2001

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37% girls compared to 19% women shows that military intervention in 2001 was successful in improving human rights for women

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what are neo-liberal views in favour of

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reduced state intervention, free-market capitalism, freedom for private businesses to trade and earn profits, promoting free trade between countries, deregularising the free market, privatising state assets

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what are the drawbacks of IGOs and neoliberalism

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rural areas miss out on economic growth and development as it focuses on industrialisation and city centred jobs, focuses on profit and economic growth in expense of the environment

31
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what does the World Bank

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Part of the United Nations, lends money to emerging and developing countries to promote development, it funds projects such as roads, hydro-electric power, telecoms and water supply schemes

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how has the World Bank helped education

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invested over $35 million in educational programmes between 2002 and 2015, helps countries set up early reading assessment systems

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how is the World Bank helping the environment

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Launches the Climate Change Action Plan in 2016, aims to help developing countries, like India to add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy (enough to power 150 million homes) to the world’s energy capacity, aims to provide early flooding warning systems for 100 million people and develop investment in agriculture for 40 countries

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What is the IMF

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international monetary fund, promotes global economic stability by intervening in countries that experience economic difficulties, aims to reduce to reduce the risk of market crashes and recessions, role of strengthening weakening currencies and foster stronger economic development policies

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how does the IMF reduce poverty

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poverty reduction programme, countries required to develop their own medium term-development plans to receive aid, loans and debt relief, working with the Haitian government to make the economy resilient especially after Hurricane Matthew in 2016, also aims to make Haiti an emerging economy by 2030

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what does the WTO do

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World Trade Organisation, promotes free trade through regulations between countries however these have frequently resulted in environmental degradation e.g in Indonesia where rainforest has been cleared for palm oil production, since the 1950s a series of negotiating rounds have removed barriers to trade although further progress has been limited since the 1990s

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how is the WTO aiming to reduce its environmental impact

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restrict the international movement of products or species that are potentially harmful or endangered, challenge trade agreements where there may be implications for climate change

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what are the UN MDGs

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the untied nations development goals, ran from 2000-2015 and aimed to improve the lives of people living in developing countries (especially South Asia and Africa) through global response, they consisted of 8 goals and subsidiary targets

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what are some examples of the UN’s MDGs

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to halve the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day, to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, reduce by two thirds the under 5 mortality rate

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how were the MDGs successful

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the health targeted 20 million deaths between 2000 and 2015, infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa fell by 53%, the rate of children dying before the age of 5 has fallen from 90 to 43 per 1000 (52% decrease)

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what were the drawbacks to the MDGs

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only one of the goals (no 7 halving the number of people without safe access to drinking water) has been achieved, only some countries account for a large slice of tis success and can mask more limited progress in parts of South Asia and Africa, all but one MDG focused on poverty reduction rather than wealth creation

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what are the SDGs

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Sustainable Development Goals, they replaced the MDGs for the period of 2015-2030, 17 global goals that apply to all countries, focus on sustainable development

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what are examples of SDGs

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clean energy-> renewable, low carbon
decent work-> for a decent wage avoiding exploitation
sustainable cities-> for more than 50% of the world’s population living in urban areas

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what is the drawback of the SDGs

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they aren’t legally binding

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