HHRI Flashcards

1
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2015 amount of countries with equal sex access to primary education %?

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70% of countries

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2
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Poverty reduction during Evo Morales presidency?

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25%

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3
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Extreme Poverty reduction during Evo Morales presidency?

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40%

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4
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Afghanistan GDP per capita?

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500 USD

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5
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Saudi Arabia oil exports as % of total exports?

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97% of export earnings are from oil production-

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6
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Geneva convention formed?

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1949

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What does Article 3 of the Geneva convention state?

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prohibits:

  1. torture
  2. hostage taking
  3. degrading treatment
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8
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Rwandan genocide victims in 1994?

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+500,000 in only 100 days

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9
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Why do war crimes occur?

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Create sense of fear

Division between groups

Hatred between groups

Extract information/intelligence

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10
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Example of war criminal 1?

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Ratko Mladić

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who was Ratko Mladić?

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11 counts of crimes committed as the Main Staff of the Army of Bosnia-Serb Republic

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Ratko Mladić sentence?

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life imprisonment for 2 counts of genocide, 5 crimes against humanity

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13
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Who prosecuted Ratko Mladić?

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UN body in the Hague lasting 24 years

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14
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What is the ECHR?

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European Convention of Human Rights

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15
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ECHR formation?

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1950

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16
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The ECHR protects:

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  • Right to life
  • Freedom from torture
  • Freedom from slavery
  • The right to liberty
  • Freedom of expression
  • The right to education
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17
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What is the UDHR?

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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When was the UDHR founded?

19
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UDHR facts?

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  • totals 30 articles

- translated to 500 languages

20
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In 2020 only … of full time workers were women in Afghanistan.

21
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Women rights after Taliban takeover August 2021?

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  • Rape still counted as adultery
  • Girls years 7-12 not to come to school
  • Ministry on women’s affairs closed
22
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Types of geopolitical intervention (4)

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  • Development aid
  • trade embargoes
  • military aid
  • direct/ indirect military action
23
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Trade embargo example?

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  • South Africa 1980s

- North Korea (present)

24
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Saudi Arabia intervening in Yemen statistic?

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Saudi led airstrikes caused 60% of deaths in ´thousand day war´ (ongoing)

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UK companies have made how much in profit to Saudis weapons sale?
£600M profit
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NATO intervention in Lybia?
- 2011 - British & French airstrikes - turmoil in country = unsuccessful intervention
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Why did NATO intervene in Lybia?
support civilian pop
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Plan # Assess the extent to which different levels of social development can be explained by variations in human rights within countries (12)
structure
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Russian annexation of Crimea year?
2014
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How did Russia justify annexing Crimea?
protection of the human rights of an enclave of ethnic Russians
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Human development factors?
- literacy rate - gender equality levels - human rights - life expectancy - wealth
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Between 1996-2004 US gave how much money to Guatemala in democracy aid?
18M USD | rebuilt justice system etc.
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1976 China GDP rank?
124th place
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China GDP rank present?
2nd place
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Chinese violation of human rights examples?
- Uighors in Xinjiang work camps | - Honk Kong political freedoms
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example of ineffective aid?
Haiti 2010 => UN caused spread of cholera
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Cholera deaths Haiti 2010?
10,000 deaths
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Botswana, Ebola outbreak 2014 people affected?
- 28,000 cases reported | - 11,000 dead
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WHO response to Botswana Ebola outbreak?
- emergency declared - material/ buildings/ staff provided - 2016 Botswana declared Ebola-free
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How to Assess the success of military intervention?
- social cost ( 60,000 American dead nam) - political cost (Tony Blair Iraq war) - economic cost (US cost Afghanistan 2 trillion USD)
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US vaccination programme reduced infant mortality by? | In Iraq war
75%
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War in Syria deaths?
+400,000
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Define human development?
process of enlarging people’s: - freedoms - opportunities - Improving well being - quality of life