Understanding Human Rights: A Quiz on Key Instruments and Philosophies Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day.

the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista.

the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior".

the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006.

Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini, whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues.

Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims.

human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan.

China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations.

1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya".

Understanding Human Rights: A Quiz on Key Instruments and Philosophies

1 The three principal regional human rights instruments are the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights (the Americas) and the ________.

2 [citation needed] The EU also has a separate human rights document; the ________.

3 [121] In ________, Life Imprisonment without parole is also considered to be cruel and unusual punishment.

4 In the political realm the concept was brought to the fore in the 18th century by the ________ and French Revolution, culminating in the United States Bill of Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively.

5 Natural law theories have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, ________, Samuel von Pufendorf, and John Locke.

6 [24] Forty-seven of the one hundred ninety-one member states sit on the council, elected by simple majority in a secret ballot of the ________.

7 This principle was reaffirmed at the 3rd and 4th ________ in 2003 and 2006.

8 This led to John Locke's theory that a failure of the government to secure rights is a failure which justifies the removal of the government, and was mirrored in later postulation by ________ in his "Du Contrat Social" (The Social Contract).

9 This was achieved in the ________ by the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

10 It ranks below the Security Council, which is the final authority for the interpretation of the ________.

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