Exam 8: Human Rights: The Challenge of Setting and Enforcing Global Norms

The promotion and protection of human rights shows global promise, but also has limitations. Using one or more real-life examples, describe how human rights effect positive change, and how they may also lead to increased tension.

Which of the following describes the stage of treaty development in the United States, in which a treaty is put before both houses of the U.S. Congress for approval?

Identify the ways in which non-state actors play a crucial role in human rights promotion. What are some of the common criticisms and challenges these organizations face, and how do they work to overcome them?

The right to protection of your physical integrity--for example, provisions on torture, arbitrary arrest, and slavery--is an example of ______.

Which of the following describes the stage of treaty development in which a treaty committee is formed (e.g., by the UN) to ensure compliance?

Increasing promotion of human rights on the global scale has led to guarantees of freedom and protection.

Which of the following best defined inalienable rights?

By creating human rights institutions or supranational governing bodies to hold states accountable for their actions, human rights treaties ______.

The enforcement problem with human rights treaties and institutions ______.

In some countries, open political competition and civil societies can allow opposition groups to pressure governments to uphold basic human rights, but not in countries where such openness does not exist. For the modern human rights regime, this represents an issue of ______.

Prior to World War II, the human rights regime ______.

Critics often note that countries face few obstacles to opt into human rights regimes and pay few costs for not adhering to them. For the modern human rights regime, this represents an issue of ______.

Which of the following is an example of a transnational advocacy network?

Through which body or actors does the UN Human Rights Council monitor, document, and promote specific human rights issues?

It is rare for the United Nations to impose general or targeted sanctions on countries that systematically abuse their citizens. For the modern human rights regime, this represents an issue of ______.

Despite the fact that many major non-state human rights actors are based in the Global North, these NGOs claim legitimacy from the fact that ______.

When people in all countries draw on the language of human rights to name their oppression and press for change and remedy, human rights operate ______.

The process by which human rights advocates document, publicize, and condemn human rights violations is commonly referred to as ______.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a legally binding declaration to all states that adopted it in 1948.

The European Court of Human Rights hears petitions from citizens and governments within the _______.