Health, Human Rights and Intervention

Question 1

What is the Human Development Index?

Answer 1

life expectancy, mean no. of school years and GDP

Question 2

What is the happy planet index?

Answer 2

combines ecological footprint with life expectancy, not economic

Question 3

What is human capital?

Answer 3

the skills, knowledge and experience possessed by an individual/population viewed in terms of their value

Question 4

Why is education the necessity towards development?

Answer 4

Basic hygenie + healthcare/ Ways to control family size/ 21st century rights and how to be involved in decision making

Question 5

In the Sahel how many children are illiterate?

Answer 5

30 milllion

Question 6

Why are there differences in development in the developing world?

Answer 6

Lack of food, poor sanitation, high infant mortality and lack of clean water

Question 7

How many people don’t have enough to eat?

Answer 7

1/9

Question 8

What is the life expectancy in Ethiopia compared to in the UK?

Answer 8

64 compared to 81

Question 9

Why are there differences in development in the developed world?

Answer 9

Differences in lifestyle (e.g. diet)
Differences in deprivation
Cost and effectiveness of healthcare

Question 10

How have the role of IGO’s changed?

Answer 10

Was: emphasised on privatisation, deregulation and free trade
Now: more socialist theories, emphasis on environment, health, education and human rights

Question 11

Name 3 examples of the Millennium Development Goals?

Answer 11

eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
reduce child mortality
achieve universal primary education

Question 12

By 2015 what proportion of people in the developing world living on less than $1.25 per day fall by?

Answer 12

14%

Question 13

How many people in 2013 were living on less than $1.25 per day?

Answer 13

836 million

Question 14

How many children received a measles vaccination between 2000 and 2013?

Answer 14

84%, preventing an estimated 15.6 million deaths

Question 15

In 2015 what did primary enrolment reach?

Answer 15

91% but 57 million primary school children are still not attending school and gender balance is still unequal in Africa

Question 16

What are human rights?

Answer 16

moral principles that underlie standards of human behaviour, to which a person is entitled to simply because they are human

Question 17

What are the human rights laws?

Answer 17

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, European Convention of Human Rights, Geneva Convention

Question 18

Describe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 18

Formed in 1948 in response to the atrocities in Nazi Germany, not legally binding.
+everyone has these rights
- rights can be broken with no consequences

Question 19

Describe European Convention of Human Rights

Answer 19

In response to WW11 and post war spread of communism
+EU have to follow it
- controversial (undermining national sovereignty)
- extremely time consuming

Question 20

Describe the Geneva Convention

Answer 20

Protects people not taking part in conflict during times of armed conflict
+protection against civilians, medical workers, prisoners of war
+peacekeeping
-not all countries agree and will follow

Question 21

What methods are there of geopolitical intervention?

Answer 21

Military aid, development aid, military action, trade embargos

Question 22

How much bilateral aid does the UK provide?

Answer 22

0.7% of gross national income ( around £11.2 billion in 2013)

Question 23

What are the advantages and disadvantages of development aid?

Answer 23

+ transfers skills and expertise
+better than bottom up
- UK donated £86.8 million to Somalia (the most corrupt nation in the world)
-Interest rates cause major debt

Question 24

What are the advantages and disadvantages of military aid?

Answer 24

+syrian refugees accepted from Jordon
+ US renewed a 5 year aid package to Jordon, proving $300 million to military finance
-Aid given of political reasons to gain influence
-Takes a long time for political and cultural change

Question 25

What did the war in Afghanistan result from following 9/11?

Answer 25

Osama Bin Laden killed on 2nd May 2011
Democracy instilled
Improved women rights and schooling

Question 26

What are the advantages and disadvantages of military action?

Answer 26

+reduces terrorist threat
+there have been success in improving human rights
- Guantanamo Bay violates against the Geneva Convention
-human rights record of those intervening is questionable
-costly

Question 27

What are trade embargos?

Answer 27

Foreign policies or laws that ban exports to and imports from a country in protest against actions by that country
Military arms are banned from export when there are concerns regarding human rights

Question 28

What are the advantages and disadvantages of trade embargos?

Answer 28

\+regime change
\+change attributes
-less money generated for the country
-diplomatic fallout
-rich countries get richer, poor get poorer

Question 29

What percentage of oil has been stolen from the Niger Delta?

Answer 29

20%

Question 30

How much do the Niger Delta loose from the stolen oil?

Answer 30

$20 billion

Question 31

Examples of good human rights?

Answer 31

Michelle and Barak Obama spent $20.8 billion on tribal education in USA
In India gay marriage was decriminalised
In Rwanda gender equality is the best in the world

Question 32

Example of poor human rights issues?

Answer 32

North Korea have public executions
Domestic abuse of women in Afghanistan
Gender inequality in Australia