Health , Human Rights and Intervention case studies

Question 1

Yemen

Answer 1

• Civil war sonce 2014
• 80% of the population in need of humanitarian assistance
  -Economic collapse within Yemen - Yemen’s GDP contracted by 6% in 2020
  -Conflict has led to over 200,000 deaths
  -Healthcare system collapse - Only 51% of Yemen’s healthcare systems are fully functioning

Question 2

Iraq War

Answer 2

-Never any significant evidence of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons programe found in Iraq
-Critics say war was for oil and US control of the middle East
-War could exceed 2.23 trillion by 2053
-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was removed from Iraq
-Promotion of democracy
-Disruption of terrorist networks
-Increased regional stability
-Loss of life - 600,000 iraqi cinvilians have died from 2003-06
-100,000 civilians killed in Iraq between 2004 and 2019
-Destabilization of the region , the rise of ISIS seized control of larges areas of territory in Syria and Iraq leading to widepsread violence , domestic and human rights abuse

Question 3

Life expectancy

Answer 3

• In nearly all countries female life expectancy is higher than male
  -In the UK LE for men is 78.4

Question 4

Education

Answer 4

• UNESCO estimates education is inaccessible to 60 million primary aged children
• 129 million girls who do not have access to education
• extremist groupa often prevent espically females from there right to education
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Question 5

UDHR

Universal Decleration of human rights

Answer 5

Framework for foreign policy to explain economic and military intervention
Sets out 30 universal rights including :
* Everyone is born free and equal
* Everyone has tje right to marry
* Everyone has the right to an opinion
1. The UDHR has isnpired more than 80 international human rights treaties
**Saudia Arbaia and South Africa did not agree to it **