Topic 8: Health, Human Rights and Intervention

Question 1

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Answer 1

the monetary value of all goods and services produced by a country in a year

Question 2

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Answer 2

relates average earnings in a country to local prices and what they will buy (the spending power within a country) - reflects local costs of living

Question 3

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Answer 3

goals related to different aspects of human development that were agreed by the UN in 2000, and that were to be achieved by 2015, including reductions in poverty, hunger and infant mortality

Question 4

intergovernmental organisation (IGO)

Answer 4

an organisation involving several countries working together on issues of common interest

Question 5

non-governmental organisation (NGO)

Answer 5

a not-for-profit organisation, independent from any government

Question 6

national sovereignty

Answer 6

the idea that each nation has a right to govern itself without interference from other nations

Question 7

extraordinary rendition

Answer 7

the secret transfer of a terror suspect, without legal process, to a foreign government for detention and interrogation (using methods that often do not meet international standards, and include the use of torture)

Question 8

torture

Answer 8

any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person in order to get information