Exam 10: Human Rights and Global Activism

Why are the human rights abuses in the United States not only historical in nature but ongoing?

According to the United Nations Water report in 2013, only 710 million people have access to clean water and 1.2 billion lack access to sufficient sanitation.

Explain the importance of the Platform for Action adopted during the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 for women's rights globally.

What is CEDAW? Why do critics claim that CEDAW has serious weaknesses that fail to address controversial issues worldwide?

Migrant laborers in the United States are the least vulnerable to human trafficking.

In which of the following nations is Cochabamba located?

How has Ai-jen Poo mobilized domestic workers to demand social and economic justice in the United States?

Which one of the following nations was the birthplace of Bogaletch Gebre?

What are the various forms of human trafficking?

In the Americas, adults make up two-thirds of the identified victims of human trafficking.

Which one of the following states is where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers located?

The Senegalese advocacy group Tostan began its work promoting traditional female genital cutting in 1991.

During which one of the following decades did Britain privatized water?

In the late 1990s, impoverished Bolivia was forced by the World Bank to privatize its water, and Cochabamba was forced to put its water system up for public sale.

Which one of the following nations is where boys are more likely to be trafficked for sexual exploitation than girls?