Third Test

Question 1

When did the Helsinki Session Occur?

Answer 1

1985

Question 2

Which article of the I.L. Commission states that the outbreak of an armed conflict does not terminate the operation of treaties?

Answer 2

Article 2

Question 3

Which article of the I.L. Commission states that a treaty establishing an international organization is not affected by armed conflict between any of its parties?

Answer 3

Article 6

Question 4

Which article of the I.L. Commission claims that a suspended treaty resumes at the end of an armed conflict?

Answer 4

Article 11

Question 5

The Human Right movement came in the wake of what?

Answer 5

WWII

Question 6

What three instruments make up the “International Bill of rights?”

Answer 6

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
• The International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights (ICESR)

Question 7

The international law of human rights begins where?

Answer 7

Article 55(c) of the UN charter

Question 8

The universal declaration of human rights was adopted when?

Answer 8

1948

Question 9

What was the vote on the declaration of human rights?

Answer 9

48 to 0; 8 abstaining

Question 10

The covenant on civil rights includes the right to not what?

Answer 10

Be imprisoned for debt

Question 11

Where does it list the acts and practices that violate I.L?

Answer 11

UN Charter Article 1(3) and UDHR Article 2

Question 12

Who handled the Lawless Case?

Answer 12

European Court of Human Rights

Question 13

What was the Lawless case about?

Answer 13

Ireland holding Lawless in detention without trial?

Question 14

What was the ruling in the Lawless case?

Answer 14

A state may hold an individual without trial during national emergency if doing so is necessary to meet the emergency

Question 15

The US is a party to how many of the human rights covenants?

Answer 15

2

Question 16

When was the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide signed and by who?

Answer 16

1948; President Truman

Question 17

When was the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide before senate?

Answer 17

1949-1986

Question 18

When did Congress pass the Genocide Convention Implementation Act? When was it ratified?

Answer 18

passed in 1988; ratified in 1989

Question 19

When did the senate give consent on the Genocide Convention Implementation Act?

Answer 19

1990

Question 20

Enforcement of international acts is based on what?

Answer 20

Compliance by member states

Question 21

When was the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia established?

Answer 21

1993

Question 22

When did African States adopt the Banjul Charter of Human’s and People’s rights?

Answer 22

1981

Question 23

in 1961, Western European states adopted what?

Answer 23

the European Social Charter

Question 24

What act made communist states make human rights commitments and Western states accept the status quo?

Answer 24

the Helsinki Final Act

Question 25

When was the Helsinki Final Act created?

Answer 25

1975

Question 26

When did the EU heads of state move to establish a charter of fundamental rights of the EU?

Answer 26

June 1999

Question 27

Which part of the charter of the organization of American states recognizes the rights of the individual and principles of universal morality?

Answer 27

Chapter IV Article 16

Question 28

When was the Inter-American Commission oh Human Rights created?

Answer 28

1960

Question 29

Where does the Banjul Charter state that every person must recognize their duties?

Answer 29

Article 27

Question 30

Which part of the Banjul charter guarantees the right to self determination?

Answer 30

Article 20

Question 31

When was the Arab League founded?

Answer 31

1945

Question 32

When did the Arab league establish a permanent Arab Commission on Human Rights?

Answer 32

1968

Question 33

When did the Arab League adopt the Arab Charter on Human Rights?

Answer 33

1994

Question 34

The Arab Charter on Human rights is silent on what?

Answer 34

the right to change religion

Question 35

By the year 2000, how many countries have ratified the Women's Convention?

Answer 35

165

Question 36

Rape is classified as a what?

Answer 36

war crime

Question 37

The statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda refers to rape as a violation of what?

Answer 37

Article 3 of the Geneva Convention

Question 38

A state incurs international responsibility if it breaches what?

Answer 38

An international obligation

Question 39

A state has a duty under I.L. to protect what?

Answer 39

A foreign embassy

Question 40

True or false: negligence in protection alone is a breach

Answer 40

False

Question 41

The entry of foreign troops into the territory of another state which would normally be unlawful becomes lawful if that state gave what?

Answer 41

consent

Question 42

Under what rule makes the wrongful act of a state excused if the act was due to an irresistible force?

Answer 42

force majure

Question 43

Who was involved in the Rainbow Warrior case?

Answer 43

New Zealand v. France

Question 44

What was the Rainbow Warrior case about?

Answer 44

France removed 2 agents convicted of destroying a ship docked in New Zealand on the basis that they required emergency medical treatment

Question 45

Under the claim of what, is a wrongful act excused if it was the only means of safeguarding an essential interest?

Answer 45

Necessity

Question 46

When was the UN charter created?

Answer 46

1945

Question 47

When did the GA first meet and where?

Answer 47

1946; first met in London, reconvened in New York

Question 48

When did the GA adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Answer 48

1948

Question 49

When did the GA establish the UN High Commissioner for Refugees?

Answer 49

1949

Question 50

When did the GA approve the treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons?

Answer 50

1968

Question 51

When did the GA announce the UN Decade of International Law?

Answer 51

1989

Question 52

When did the GA establish post of High Commissioner for Human Rights/

Answer 52

1994

Question 53

When did 152 heads of state from all over the world to reaffirm the UN's central position in world affairs?

Answer 53

2000

Question 54

What UN Security Council Resolution identified acts of terrorism?

Answer 54

1566

Question 55

When did the UN Security Council pass resolution 1566?

Answer 55

2004

Question 56

When did UN security council Resolution 1593 refer to its first case?

Answer 56

2005

Question 57

What was Resolution 1593's first case about?

Answer 57

Sudan to the ICC

Question 58

Which article of the UN charter recognizes the contribution of regional agencies to global peace?

Answer 58

VIII

Question 59

What is the Inter-American treaty of Reciprocal Assistance of 1947 also known as?

Answer 59

The Rio Treaty

Question 60

The African Charter calls for a collective African defense posture known as what?

Answer 60

The African High Command

Question 61

Which article of the Arab League Charter considers aggression against one member as aggression against all?

Answer 61

Article VII

Question 62

Where does NATO discuss collective self defense?

Answer 62

Articles 3-6

Question 63

Where does NATO discuss peaceful settlement of disputes involving a member?

Answer 63

Article 1

Question 64

When was the landmine convention?

Answer 64

1977

Question 65

Who did not sign the landmine convention?

Answer 65

USA, Russia, China

Question 66

When was the Geneva Gas Protocol?

Answer 66

1925

Question 67

When was the Chemical Weapons Convention?

Answer 67

1993

Question 68

The Chemical Weapons Convention oblige those who have them to dispose of them by when?

Answer 68

2010

Question 69

The possession and testing of nuclear weapons is handled by what?

Answer 69

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970

Question 70

What is the main authority about POWs?

Answer 70

The Third Geneva Convention

Question 71

The work a prisoner does must not be what?

Answer 71

dangerous, humiliating, affiliated with the war

Question 72

What governs the protection of civilians in wartime?

Answer 72

The 4th Geneva Convention

Question 73

Which article of the 4th Geneva convention states that women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honor?

Answer 73

Article 27

Question 74

What codefines sexual and gender based atrocities?

Answer 74

Article 7 (1) of the 1998 Rome Statute

Question 75

The convention on the Rights of the Child restricts the recruitment of children under what?

Answer 75

15

Question 76

Jurisdiction under I.L. may be what?

Answer 76

Personal or Subject-Matter

Question 77

The jurisdiction of the nation within its own country is what?

Answer 77

exclusive and absolute

Question 78

Who handled Blackmer v. US and when?

Answer 78

SCOTUS, 1932

Question 79

What was Blackmer v US about?

Answer 79

Blackmer was living in France and failed to respond to subpoenas served upon him that required him to appear in the US

Question 80

What was the ruling in Blackmer v US?

Answer 80

For the exercise of judicial jurisdiction in personam, there must be due process

Question 81

Who handled US v. Fawaz Yunis and when?

Answer 81

US Court of Appeals (DC) 1991

Question 82

What was US v. Fawaz Yunis about?

Answer 82

The hijacker alleged that the US did not have the right to prosecute him in the US

Question 83

What was the ruling in US v. Fawaz Yunis?

Answer 83

A state may punish non-nationals outside of its territory

Question 84

Who handled Wilson v. Girard and when?

Answer 84

SCOTUS, 1957

Question 85

What was Wilson v. Girard about?

Answer 85

A US soldier wounded a Japanese woman during a military exercise but was granted an injunction preventing him from going to Japanese authorities

Question 86

What was the ruling in Wilson v. Girard?

Answer 86

A sovereign state has exclusive jurisdiction to punish offenses against its laws committed within its borders unless it consents to surrender its jurisdiction

Question 87

The surrender of an individual accused or convicted of a crime to the state where he committed the crime is known as what?

Answer 87

Extradition

Question 88

Under what principle can the state making the request not try or punish the fugitives for crimes committed before the extradition?

Answer 88

Specialty

Question 89

Under the requirement of what is extradition available when the act is punishable under law of both states?

Answer 89

Double criminality

Question 90

When did the US and UK sign the Supplementary Extradition Treaty?

Answer 90

June 25, 1985

Question 91

If the fugitive is not a national of the asylum state, it may deport him as a what?

Answer 91

Undesirable alien