Human Rights: Key Concepts and Principles

Question 1

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Answer 1

Acronym UDHR.

Question 2

What organization formed a commission that was headed by Eleanor Roosevelt?

Answer 2

The United Nations (UN)

Question 3

What is Eleanor Roosevelt holding in the picture?

Answer 3

The Declaration of Human Rights

Question 4

How many countries did the members of the Human Rights Commission come from?

Answer 4

18

Question 5

The members of the Human rights Commission that came from 18 countries set about to what we call?

Answer 5

Modern human rights

Question 6

True or false: Human Rights have been here for a very long time and are expressed in different ways?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Human Rights came about after what event?

Answer 7

World War II

WWII

Question 8

What law means that governments + authorities have to be held responsible for either identifying the satisfaction of human rights or not?

Answer 8

Accountability + The Rule of Law

Question 9

What two factors mean that each right contributes to a human being’s dignity + fulfillment of one right and depends on fulfilling other rights?

Answer 9

Interdependence + Inter relatedness

Question 10

What principle means that human rights cannot be positioned in any kind of priority order?
We have to attend to all rights means?

Answer 10

Indivisibility

Question 11

What is a right?

Answer 11

It’s a freedom of a kind

Question 12

True or false? You are entitled to a right by virtue of being a human.

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

TRUE OR FALSE. Human rights are based on the principle of respect for the individual.

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?

Answer 14

EACH PERSON IS A MORAL AND HUMAN BEING and deserves to be treated with respect

Question 15

What are human rights?

Answer 15

Universal

Question 16

Nations or specialized groups enjoy particular rights which apply only to them. True or false?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

TRUE OR FALSE: Everyone is entitled to human rights simply because they are alive

Answer 17

True

Question 18

TRUE OR FALSE: In ages past, there were no human rights. Then the idea emerged that people should have certain freedoms. And that idea, in the wake of WWII, resulted finally in the document called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) + 30 rights to which all people are entitled

Answer 18

True