Deck 2: Before and Beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 1

St. Augustine in his classic City of God said that if you take over a ship, you are a pirate, but if you take over a fleet, you are a(n) _____.

Answer 1

admiral

Question 2

Corporations searching globally for places to employ workers at the lowest possible wage is sometimes called _____.

Answer 2

the race to the bottom

Question 3

Alfred Binet, whose work led to the development of the Binet Intelligence Test and other intelligence tests in general, was fearful that _______.

Answer 3

such tests may be used as a tool of fascism.

Question 4

An approach that is phenomenon bound rather than systems bound is sometimes called _____.

Question 5

_____ was beheaded for writing the Declaration on the Rights of Women.

Question 6

What phrase is found in every state constitution, according to the author?

Question 7

Knowledge of language, sharing, respect for elders, love for children, hard work, knowledge of one's family tree, avoidance of conflict, respect for nature, spirituality, humor, family roles, successful hunting, domestic skills, humility, and responsibility to tribe are values are part of which movement and where?

Question 8

What are people called who examine and report on particular themes, like racism, xenophobia, and violence against women?

Question 9

What is the name of the article in the U.S. Constitution that refers to treaties (i.e. international conventions) as the "law of the land… and the judges bound thereby?

Question 10

What is the name of one of the earliest codes in antiquity that served as guiding principles for groups of people?

Question 11

Sophocles' Antigone illustrated the importance of ___________.

Question 12

Marcus Aurelius's thinking in part that one "should pile good deed upon good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them" was a precursor to what psychotherapeutic movement?

Question 13

The most significant development of the Middle Ages was the ______, a legacy of the Assizes of Jerusalem.

Question 14

Which author is known for exposing the vanity, snobbishness, and immorality of many of the scholastic works during the Renaissance?

Question 15

Which motto best describes the Age of the Enlightenment?

Question 16

Who said "The White man knows how to produce goods, but not how to distribute them"?

Question 17

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson substituted what phrase for the word "property" in John Locke's pithy phrase "life, liberty, and property"?

Question 18

Who said that a person "who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster"?

Question 19

A major characteristic of the Age of Industrialization was __________.

Question 20

The late Pope John Paul II spoke about the "grain of truth" in _____.

Question 21

Who felt that social problems were no longer about a civil rights struggle but a struggle for human rights and urged oppressed peoples to use UN human rights bodies as a way of garnering moral support of the world?

Question 22

The League of Nations collapsed largely because of _____.

Question 23

In the debates prior to the endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Soviet Union felt that freedom of expression in the U.S. led to a ______.

Question 24

The Soviet Union wanted the Universal Declaration to pay more attention to _____.

Question 25

What existed in the Soviet Union that, according to France was a slow kind of death penalty?

Question 26

Which country was concerned that freedom of religion might be used as a pretext for political intervention?

Question 27

Which countries abstained from voting for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

Question 28

A major problem that the U.S. appears to have with the ICCPR is ______.

Question 29

Which country voted to deny consultative status at the UN to the Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians and the International Lesbian and Gay Association?

Question 30

Four thousand gays and lesbians have been executed since the 1979 revolution in which country?

Question 31

The "unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination" is forthrightly asserted by which human rights regime?

Question 32

The human rights monitoring committee for the ICCPR referred to the U.S. Bill of Rights as a _____.

Question 33

What is the name for reports filed by NGOs as alternatives to official government reports?

Question 34

The word "religion" comes from the Latin religare, which means ___________.

Question 35

Who said "human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities"?

Question 36

What does it mean to say that human rights documents are historical-philosophical compromises?

Question 37

Describe the Human Rights Triptych. Which documents and/or procedures are included in each panel?

Question 38

How is culture reflective of human choice? Give some examples.

Question 39

Discuss major historical antecedents, including some major thinkers and documents, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 40

Discuss select input of countries prior to the endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 41

Discuss at least five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of the UN Charter.

Question 42

Discuss four essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of the ICCPR.

Question 43

Discuss five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of CERD.

Question 44

Discuss five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of CAT.

Question 45

Discuss five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of CESCR.

Question 46

Discuss five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of CEDAW.

Question 47

Discuss ten essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of the CRC.

Question 48

Discuss five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of the CRPD.

Question 49

Discuss at least two essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Question 50

Discuss five essential themes, including at least one elaboration, of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Question 51

Discuss five essential themes of the Final Draft of the Guiding Principles to Eradicate Extreme Poverty.

Question 52

Discuss at least two human rights regimes and some important human rights documents associated with them.

Question 53

Discuss three international implementation mechanisms and give at least two examples of each.