Exam 10: Human Rights

During the war in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s,the term ________ was coined to mean working to remove peoples of another group from their territory,but not necessarily killing them all.

Which of the following is true about the status of women in the international community?

The Geneva Conventions (1949),some of the first international humanitarian laws with virtual universal approval,focus on protecting the rights of which group(s)?

What is one reason why the U.S.government has objected to the International Criminal Court?

States disagree on what types of rights should be given priority.

Which of the following is true of human rights treaties?

Less developed states,even liberal democratic ones,often fail to meet obligations of social and economic rights.

Which of the following is an example of civil and political rights?

Some critics of the ICC argue that bringing individuals to justice might jeopardize the long-term peace because

Which of the following is true about the mass killings by Serbs against Bosnians in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s?

Early United Nations efforts following the 1949 Universal Declaration of Human Rights focused on getting states to grant women ________.

Realists argue that U.S.support for anti-communist regimes with abusive human rights records during the Cold War

Which of the following is an example of a group right?

Which of the following is true of the International Criminal Court?

Realists argue the primary responsibility for protecting human rights falls to

IGOs' efforts against South Africa's apartheid government

Military action by states or the international community to alleviate massive human rights violations is known as

Which is true about the development of human rights protections at the international level?

According to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,states cannot violate civil and political rights under any circumstances.

Cultural relativism is the idea that