Legal studies

Question 1

Definition of Human Rights

Answer 1

Rights that recognise the inherent value of each person, regardless of our background, where we live, what we look like, or what we believe.

Question 2

The three catagories of human rights.

Answer 2

First gerneation, Second generation, and Third generation

Question 3

What is the first genration of human rights

Answer 3

First gen is Civil and political rights

Question 4

What is the second gernation

Answer 4

Economic, cultural and social rights

Question 5

what is the Third gernation of Human rights

Answer 5

environmental rights and peace rights

Question 6

Where are the Human rights located

Answer 6

The rights are located in The Universal Declaration of Human rights (1948) and The international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights (1966)

Question 7

Why were the rights developed

Answer 7

They were developed as a development of the atrocities of WW2. The rights also built upon rights outlined by religions throughoutthe world

Question 8

What is Abolitionism

Answer 8

Abolitionism is ending slavery

Question 8

What is a right

Answer 8

A moral or legal entitlement to a person

Question 9

what is a state

Answer 9

A goventmetn and the people it governs

Question 10

what is Ratified

Answer 10

Ratified is the process of a state formally approving a treaty making it legally binding, i.e peope in taiwan can get protection under human rights regiem because they live in an unrecognised state.

Question 11

What is a nation

Answer 11

A nation is a group of people who share a common heritage, language or culture and sometimes a common race, This dose not always correspond with state borders

Question 12

What are the charactersitics of state sovereignty

Answer 12

Permanent population, a defined terrirtory, government, and capacity to enter into international relations

Question 13

how many states are fully recognised state members of the UN

Answer 13

193 members are recognised

Question 14

What does the ICC stand for

Answer 14

International Criminal Court

Question 15

What does the ICJ stand for

Answer 15

International Court of justice

Question 16

How does the High court promote HR

Answer 16

The high court promotes HR inserting it into our laws and making the laws align with the fairness that is supposed to be given

Question 17

What does the ICC do

Answer 17

The ICC prosecutes individuals for crimes against humanity

Question 18

What does the ICJ do

Answer 18

The ICJ attempts to resolve disputes between states

Question 19

International Crimes

Answer 19

Genocide, War crimes, Piracy, Hijacking, Slave trading

Question 20

What is the treatie established for the criminalisation of Genocide

Answer 20

UN – the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the crime of genocide (1948)

Question 21

An example of Genocide

Answer 21

The Holocaust

Question 22

What is Contemporary Slavery

Answer 22

Contemporary slavery is different types of modern slavery such as Forced Labour, Debt bondage, Sexual Slavery, Child Soldiers and Foced Marriage

Question 23

What does Forced Labour mean

Answer 23

Forced Labour is work that is foced onto another person under a threat that the person has not offered to do voluntarily

Question 24

What is Dobt Bondage

Answer 24

Debt bondage is the pledge of a porsons services as a security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation

Question 25

Sexual slavery meaning

Answer 25

The state of being unlwafully kept in a situation where one is repeatedly forced to engage in sexual activity against ones will

Question 26

Define human Trafficiking

Answer 26

Human trafficking is the act of smuggling another person against their will into another country for the illicate purpose of selling them, or using them as sex slaves

Question 27

movements that led to the abolishment of slavery

Answer 27

The General act of Brussels conference relating to the African Slave Trade

Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery (1926)

After WW2 Acticle 4 of the UDHR (1948)

Question 28

Three documents on Human Rights

Answer 28

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Covenant on Economic,Social and Cultural Rights.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights