This set of Energy & Environment Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Human Rights”.
1. Which of the following are moral principles that describe certain standards of human behavior and are regularly protected as legal rights?
a) National rights
b) Human rights
c) Women rights
d) Men rights
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Explanation: Human rights are rights inherent to human beings, whatever our place of residence, origin, nationality, sex, religion, language or any other status. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.
2. When did the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created?
a) 1947
b) 1948
c) 1949
d) 1950
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Explanation: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948. It was adopted as Resolution 217 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France.
3. Which is the world’s first charter of human rights?
a) The Cyrus Cylinder
b) The Constitution of Media
c) Bill of Rights
d) The Magna Carta
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Explanation: The Cyrus Cylinder which was created by King Cyrus the Great, it is the world’s first charter of human rights. It is translated into all six official languages of the United Nations and its provisions parallel the first four Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4. Which one of the following played an important role in international human rights law?
a) World war
b) Economic summit
c) The United Nations
d) Treaty of Baskerville
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Explanation: The United Nations has played an important role in international human-rights law since its creation in 1945 at Yalta Conference. The allied powers agreed to create a new body to supplant the League’s role.
5. In which century human rights became a central concern over the issue of slavery?
a) 15th
b) 17th
c) 19th
d) 21th
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Explanation: In the 19th century, human rights became a central concern over the issue of slavery. This was achieved across the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act 1807. This Slave Trade Act was enforced internationally by the Royal Navy under treaties Britain negotiated with other nations.
6. Ancient peoples have the same modern day conception of universal human rights.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Ancient peoples did not have the same modern day conception of universal human rights. The true forerunner of human rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval natural law.
7. When did the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam adopted?
a) 1985
b) 1990
c) 1995
d) 2000
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Explanation: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam is a declaration of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation adopted at Cairo in Egypt on 5 August 1990. It provides an overview on the Islamic perspective on human rights.
8. In which country ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ was adopted?
a) India
b) France
c) China
d) Denmark
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Explanation: After French Revolution, in 1789 the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly as the first step toward writing a constitution for the Republic of France.
9. When did the first Geneva Convention took place?
a) 1756
b) 1864
c) 1958
d) 2006
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Explanation: The first Geneva Convention took place in 1864. The diplomatic conference was held for the purpose of adopting a convention for the treatment of wounded soldiers in brutal combat. This saves thousands of lives.
10. Under whose chairmanship The United Declaration of Human Rights was adopted?
a) Eleanor Roosevelt
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Adolf Hitler
d) Queen Elizabeth
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Explanation: In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations. It was adopted under the dynamic chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt, credited with its inspiration, referred to the Declaration as the international Magna Carta for all mankind.
11. How many articles are there in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
a) 10
b) 20
c) 30
d) 40
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Explanation: There are 30 articles are there in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted in 1948. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations.
12. Which of the following Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights tells the right of nationality is depends on ones wish?
a) Article 10
b) Article 15
c) Article 20
d) Article 25
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Explanation: There are 30 articles are there in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on December 10, 1948. Article 15 tells that, “Everyone has the right to a nationality” and “No one shall be arbitrary neither deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality”.
13. When did the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India constituted?
a) 1990
b) 1991
c) 1992
d) 1993
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Explanation: The National Human Rights Commission of India was constituted on 12 October 1993. It is an autonomous public body. It was constituted under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance in 1993.
14. Human rights and civil rights are the same.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: Human rights and civil rights are different. Human rights are usually agreed upon rights that people of various groups believe all people regardless of gender, religion or any other status. Civil rights deal more with the agreed upon obligation on government owes to its people.
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