Human Rights

Question 1

What are Human Rights?

Answer 1

The fundamental rights belonging to every person regardless of race, gender, age, nationality, or religion.

Question 2

What formed the basis of ‘modern’ human rights?

Answer 2

The UN’s ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1945’

Question 3

What are the 4 features of a human right?

Answer 3

They are universal, inalienable, indivisible, and interdependent

Question 4

What are the 4 relevant discrimination acts and their dates?

Answer 4

Sex discrimination act (1984), Racial discrimination act (1975), Disability discrimination act (1992), Age discrimination act (2004)

Question 5

What and when is the Parliamentary Scrutiny Act?

Answer 5

Parliamentary Scrutiny Act (2011) - Parliamentary Committee of Human Rights looks at proposed law to see if it meets international conventions and provides statement of compatibility/allows government to edit it.

Question 6

What is the Cyrus Cylinder?

Answer 6

First recognised charter of human rights 539 BCE

Question 7

What is the Magna Carta

Answer 7

Corner-stone of human rights for english-speaking world. Protection from excessive/arbitrary taxation, widows owning land, forbidding bribery/official misconduct. 1215

Question 8

What is Petition of Right?

Answer 8

1628 - Four principles:
No taxes without consent of Parliament, no arbitrary imprisonment, no soldiers quartered on citizens, martial law not used in times of peace.

Question 9

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and or the Citizen?

Answer 9

1789 French Revolution - liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression

Question 10

What is the First Geneva Convention

Answer 10

1964 - First international treaty that covered treatment and care for sick/wounded soldiers on the battlefield