Deck 3: Human Rights and International Law

Question 1

Which of the following is not a principle aim of the UN?

A)to promote international law
B)to facilitate co-operation among states
C)to ensure world peace
D)to ensure economic development for minorities

Answer 1

to ensure economic development for minorities

Question 2

Which Article of UDHR concerns the Right to benefit from scientific advancement?

A)article 3
B)article 14
C)article 27
D)article 24

Answer 2

article 27

Question 3

the International Criminal Court is located at

A)paris
B)geneva
C)the hague
D)brussels

Answer 3

the hague

Question 4

the Directive Principles of State Policy have been given in the Indian Constitution

A)part - iii
B)part - ii
C)part - xiii
D)part - iv

Question 5

When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) made?

A)10th december 1948
B)8th august 1956
C)20th june 1950
D)10th november 1942

Question 6

Who cannot be appointed as member of the National Human Rights Commission?

A)district judge
B)chief justice of any high court
C)eminent scholar having expertise in the field of human rights.
D)judge of the supreme court of india.

Question 7

Mention the name of the instrument which set international standards of human rights

A)geneva convention
B)european convention on human
C)african charter on human rights & people's rights
D)arab charter on human rights

Question 8

Which case decided by the Indian Judiciary provided jurisprudential genesis for human rights development in India?

A)m.c. mehta v. union of india
B)maneka gandhi v. union of india
C)visakha v. state of rajasthan
D)mandal case

Question 9

Which international event resulted into the beginning of the international movement of the contemporary concept of human rights?

A)incidents of discrimination
B)inhuman treatment during tudor's period
C)slavery
D)world war ii

Question 10

Name the basic international instrument, which does not carry binding effect

A)magna carta
B)cedaw
C)universal declaration of human rights
D)geneva conventions

Question 11

Who coined the term 'Genocide'?

A)raphael lemkin
B)robert h. jackson
C)martin shaw
D)woodrow wilson

Question 12

Who of the following was the main mover behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

A)woodrow wilson
B)franklin d. roosevelt
C)thomas paine
D)eleanor roosevelt

Question 13

Third Generation of Human Rights is also known as

A)citizen's rights
B)developmental rights
C)group rights
D)women's rights

Question 14

Who among the following defined rights as "those conditions of social life without which no man can reacts in general, to be his best"?

A)harold j. laski
B)bernard bosanquet
C)leonard hobhouse
D)hurst hannum

Question 15

In which case Supreme Court held that Parliament has no power to amend the Fundamental Rights?

A)golak nath case
B)sajjan singh case
C)shankari prasad case
D)none of the se

Question 16

the protection of Human Rights Act in India was enacted in the year

A)1993
B)1994
C)1995
D)1996

Question 17

Who introduced the concept of third generation Human Rights?

A)tulliuscesero
B)jermy bentham
C)john finnis
D)karel vasak

Question 18

Which one of the following is not a UN Agency?

A)unicef
B)unesco
C)wto
D)ilo

Question 19

Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Refugees?

A)the y are outside the ir country
B)fear of persecution
C)absence of national protection
D)poverty as reason of being outside the country

Question 20

Who among the following propounded the modern principles of Natural Justice?

A)locke
B)j.s. mill
C)a.v. dicey
D)john rawals

Question 21

Crimes against humanity is defined as acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. Which of the following is an example of crimes against humanity?

A)genocide
B)aggression
C)enslavement
D)killing members of the group

Question 22

Which article of the Rome Statute of the ICC provides for individual criminal responsibility?

A)23
B)24
C)25
D)26

Question 23

Are the re any limits to the application of Article 103 of the UN Charter?

A)yes, it is limited by jus cogens norms
B)yes, it is limited by treaties
C)yes, it is limited by the pronouncements of the icj
D)no limits

Question 24

Which of the following is not a regional human rights instruments?

A)the african charter on human and peoples' rights for africa
B)the american convention on human rights for the americas
C)the european convention on human rights for europe
D)the convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination

Question 25

What is a derogation?

A)to follow a variation of certain human rights on a regional level.
B)the suspension of particular rights (but not fundamental ones) for a specific period of time during a public emergency that threatens the life of a nation.
C)violation of human rights by the executive.
D)suspension of human rights during a public emergency