HHRI Flashcards
2015 amount of countries with equal sex access to primary education %?
70% of countries
Poverty reduction during Evo Morales presidency?
25%
Extreme Poverty reduction during Evo Morales presidency?
40%
Afghanistan GDP per capita?
500 USD
Saudi Arabia oil exports as % of total exports?
97% of export earnings are from oil production-
Geneva convention formed?
1949
What does Article 3 of the Geneva convention state?
prohibits:
- torture
- hostage taking
- degrading treatment
Rwandan genocide victims in 1994?
+500,000 in only 100 days
Why do war crimes occur?
Create sense of fear
Division between groups
Hatred between groups
Extract information/intelligence
Example of war criminal 1?
Ratko Mladić
who was Ratko Mladić?
11 counts of crimes committed as the Main Staff of the Army of Bosnia-Serb Republic
Ratko Mladić sentence?
life imprisonment for 2 counts of genocide, 5 crimes against humanity
Who prosecuted Ratko Mladić?
UN body in the Hague lasting 24 years
What is the ECHR?
European Convention of Human Rights
ECHR formation?
1950
The ECHR protects:
- Right to life
- Freedom from torture
- Freedom from slavery
- The right to liberty
- Freedom of expression
- The right to education
What is the UDHR?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
When was the UDHR founded?
1948
UDHR facts?
- totals 30 articles
- translated to 500 languages
In 2020 only … of full time workers were women in Afghanistan.
2.4%
Women rights after Taliban takeover August 2021?
- Rape still counted as adultery
- Girls years 7-12 not to come to school
- Ministry on women’s affairs closed
Types of geopolitical intervention (4)
- Development aid
- trade embargoes
- military aid
- direct/ indirect military action
Trade embargo example?
- South Africa 1980s
- North Korea (present)
Saudi Arabia intervening in Yemen statistic?
Saudi led airstrikes caused 60% of deaths in ´thousand day war´ (ongoing)