Deck 10: Human Rights and Global Activism

Question 1

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

Answer 1

(on pp. 323-324)

Question 2

Who is the most vulnerable for human trafficking?

Answer 2

(on pp. 303-305)

Question 3

What factor(s) influence the rise of female genital cosmetic surgeries in the United States? Why do the American Congress of Obstetricians oppose these operations?

Answer 3

(on pp. 306-307)

Question 4

What are the long-term health and psychological consequences of traditional female genital cutting (fgc)? Why do anti-fgc activists oppose the medicalization of fgc?

Question 5

Why has the recognition of human rights for the LGBT communities gained support in the last 15 years globally?

Question 6

Why is the recognition of human rights for the LGBT communities gaining support globally?

Question 7

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

Question 8

Discuss why human trafficking represents a global problem whose dynamics differ from region to region.

Question 9

Why do some feminists such as Chandra Mohanty and Lisa Wade disagree with the traditional Western anti-fgc discourse?

Question 10

What are the various forms of human trafficking?

Question 11

What is the socioeconomic connection between water and gender?

Question 12

Why hasn't the United States ratified CEDAW?

Question 13

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

Question 14

Explain the significance of Tawakkol Karman for struggle for democracy and women's rights in Yemen?

Question 15

What role does neoliberalism play in the development of modern human trafficking globally?

Question 16

What historical and cultural factor(s) created the phenomena of traditional female genital cutting? What primary reasons do women provide for supporting it?

Question 17

How did Leymah Gbowee promote peace, democracy, and human rights in war-torn Liberia?

Question 18

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

Question 19

What specific actions for promoting women's rights and gender equality have some governments taken after ratifying CEDAW?

Question 20

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Question 21

Who wrote the essay "Under Western Eyes"?

A) Anibal Quijano
B) Chandra Mohanty
C) Meredith Flowe
D) Craig Anthony Arnold
E) Richard Estes

Question 22

When did the United Nations General Assembly recognize the human right to water and sanitation?

A) 1999
B) 2012
C) 2000
D) 2010
E) 2007

Question 23

In which of the following nations is Cochabamba located?

A) Ecuador
B) Argentina
C) Bolivia
D) Peru
E) Chile

Question 24

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

A) 2000s
B) 1980s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s
E) 1990s

Question 25

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

A) Florida
B) North Carolina
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
E) Alabama

Question 26

How many females worldwide are estimated to be affected by traditional female genital cutting practices?

A) 175 million
B) 126 million
C) 210 million
D) 200 million
E) 150 million

Question 27

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

A) Somalia
B) Ethiopia
C) Mozambique
D) Egypt
E) Kenya

Question 28

When was the United Nations founded?

A) 1948
B) 1946
C) 1944
D) 1949
E) 1945

Question 29

Who is the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?

A) Benazir Bhutto
B) Linda Sarsour
C) Tawakkol Karman
D) Malala Yousafzai
E) Amani al Khatahtbeh

Question 30

Which city hosted the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women?

A) Beijing
B) Tianjin
C) Shanghai
D) Seoul
E) Hong Kong

Question 31

According to the U.N. Girls' Education Initiative in 2012, how many children globally never attend school?

A) 100 million
B) 83 million
C) 67 million
D) 72 million
E) 60 million

Question 32

Who made this statement: "Are women human?"

A) Hilary Clinton
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Gertrude Mongella
D) Rosa Briceno
E) Catharine MacKinnon

Question 33

Which one of the following issues is not addressed in CEDAW?

A) Discrimination
B) Abortion
C) Political freedom
D) Violence against women
E) Economic freedom

Question 34

When was the first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights enacted in the U.S.?

A) 2003
B) 2008
C) 2001
D) 2010
E) 2012

Question 35

Among the 148 countries studied within the U.N. Development Programme for gender equality in 2013, where is Yemen ranked?

A) 148th
B) 139th
C) 146th
D) 140th
E) 144th

Question 36

Which one of the following African countries was the first one to elect a female president?

A) Sierra Leone
B) Nigeria
C) Liberia
D) The Cameroons
E) Ghana

Question 37

Which one of the following nations is where U.S. evangelical Christian groups promote anti-LGBT laws?

A) South Africa
B) Trinidad and Tobago
C) Costa Rica
D) Bulgaria
E) Russia

Question 38

Which one of the following countries is where Leslye Obiora originally from?

A) Mali
B) Nigeria
C) Gabon
D) Central African Republic
E) Uganda

Question 39

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

A) Vietnam
B) Thailand
C) Pakistan
D) Sri Lanka
E) The Philippines

Question 40

What percentage of Native Americans in the U.S. do not have access to clean water and/or sanitation?

A) 13
B) 18
C) 12
D) 10
E) 7

Question 41

In which African nation does activist Doussou Konate campaign to publicize information regarding the detrimental effects of fgc (female genital cutting)?

A) Burkina Faso
B) Madagascar
C) Senegal
D) Benin
E) Guinea

Question 42

Which one of the following countries permits parents of intersex children to mark their birth certificates with an X instead of identifying the sex of their child as female or male?

A) United Kingdom
B) Poland
C) Sweden
D) Switzerland
E) Germany

Question 43

Who chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

A) Jane Addams
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Alice Paul
D) Margaret Sanger
E) Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 44

Which one of the following nations lets trans and intersex people mark "gender-neutral" in the gender category on their passports or national identity cards?

A) Ukraine
B) Hungary
C) Italy
D) New Zealand
E) Spain

Question 45

Who introduced Malala Yousafzai at the U.N. in 2013 and added that by targeting Malala, "extremists showed what they fear most: a girl with a book?"

A) Ban Ki-moon
B) Kofi Annan
C) Samantha Power
D) Boutros Boutros-Ghali
E) Susan Rice

Question 46

Men from Cambodia is trafficked and sold to Thai fishing captains.

Question 47

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

Question 48

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.

Question 49

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.

Question 50

Many Westerners view women and men in the Global South as an empowered and diverse populations.

Question 51

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

Question 52

Male victims of trafficking are fewer than their female counterparts, but their numbers are currently growing.

Question 53

Liberia, Kenya, and Burkina Faso have witnessed declines of 30 percent or more in fgc in recent years.

Question 54

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

Question 55

The United States maintains the largest reported incarcerated population in the world.