Human Rights Definitions 👩🏽✅

Question 1

Human Rights

Answer 1

• basic rights and freedoms inherent to all human beings, to which people are entitled without discrimination

Question 2

Civil Society

Answer 2

• NGOs & other organisations which are independent of governments
• working voluntarily, individually or collectively, in support of citizens & communities throughout the world

Question 3

Human Rights Norms

Answer 3

• established customary behaviour base on moral principles💟 and ways of living inculcated into the culture of a country or area over a long period of time⏰

Question 4

International Treaties

Answer 4

• international agreements concluded between states, in written form📝 and governed by international law

Question 5

Infant Mortality Rate👶🏼

Answer 5

• annual number of deaths💀 of infants under 1 year old per 1000 live births👶🏼

Question 6

Intervention

Answer 6

• actions of a state, group of states or international organisations in a foreign territory to end gross violations of human rights👩🏽✅
• includes military👮🏽‍♀️👨🏼‍🚒 force🛡, economic sanctions & assistance of NGOs

Question 7

Humanitarian Intervention

Answer 7

• action taken (often by 3rd party country or multilateral agency eg UN) in a sobering state to protect🛡people at risk from war⚔️💣, famine🥘❌, flood🌊, genocide⚔️👩🏽👴🏾👦🏽 etc

Question 8

United Nations

Answer 8

• international organisation headquarters in NYC
• formed to promote international peace☮️, security & cooperation under the terms of the charter
• signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco - 1945

Question 9

Global Governance

Answer 9

• intervention by the local community, attempting to regulate issues eg human rights👩🏽✅, sovereignty & territorial integrity

Question 10

Geopolitics

Answer 10

• term used in early 20th century, in the ‘heartland’ work of Sir Halford Mackinder - referring to ways in which geographical factors were central in shaping international politics

Question 11

Advanced Countries🌇

Answer 11

• countries that share a number of important economic characteristics including well-developments financial markets💵, high degrees of financial intermediation and diversified economic structures with rapidly growing service sectors🛍

Question 12

Emerging and Developing Countries🏙

Answer 12

• countries that don’t share all the economic development characteristics required to be advanced & are also not eligible for the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, identified by the IMF

Question 13

Low-income Developing Countries🏘

Answer 13

• counties that are eligible for financial💵 support from the IMF through the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust

Question 14

Forced Labour

Answer 14

• when people are coerced to work through use of violence or intimidation🗣 or by more subtle means of detention eg retention of identity papers📜📇📁

Question 15

Gender Inequality👩🏽❌👱🏽

Answer 15

• unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender
• a situation in which men & women don’t enjoy the same rights & opportunities across all sectors of society specifically because of their gender