Quiz Questions

Question 1

The french National assembly approved the Declaration of the rights of Man and of citizens in?

Answer 1

1789

Question 2

What is described as first generation rights?

Answer 2

Civil and Political Rights

Question 3

What is NOT a source of international law?

Answer 3

Domestic laws

Question 4

Treaties can be written down and agreed upon by?

Answer 4

States

Question 5

What is the main criqiue of the Western, liberal notion of human rights?

Answer 5

It elevates individual rights over all other types of rights

Question 6

The acceptance of a treaty by a state occurs at the moment the treaty is?

Answer 6

Ratified

Question 7

What did Thomas Hobbes believe about the state of nature?

Answer 7

That is it nasty, brutish and short

Question 8

The declaration of rights of man and the citizen was drafted during what revolution?

Answer 8

The French Revolution

Question 9

The universal declaration of human rights was made when?

Answer 9

1948

Question 10

According to cultural relativism, norms of human rights emergent out of the west only apply in the west because

Answer 10

Cultural relativism argues that norms are appropriate for the cultures out of which they emerge