Human Rights Violations Multiple Choice

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Based on these photographs, which action taken by the governments of Chile and Argentina violated the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

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The military targeted political dissidents.

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Based on this political cartoon which statement best describes the author’s point of view? Options: Genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur has been stopped. Human rights issues are best dealt with by the United Nations. The United Nations has not been effective in ending genocide. Fear of war crimes trials has brought peace to troubled regions.

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The United Nations has not been effective in ending genocide.

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Which empire was responsible for carrying out the Armenian genocide during World War I?

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Ottoman Empire

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What is the main idea of this cartoon?

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The world continues to ignore human rights violations.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written in response to

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atrocities committed during World War II

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One way in which the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (1915) and the Tutsis in Rwanda (1994) are similar is that both groups

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suffered human rights violations

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The treatment of Christian Armenians in Ottoman Turkey (1915) and the treatment of Bosnian Muslims in the former Yugoslavia (1990s) are examples of

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human rights violations

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What is the key idea of this cartoon?

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The United Nations has not been effective in ending genocide.

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Conflicts in Rwanda and Darfur demonstrate the destabilizing effects of

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ethnic conflict

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Stalin’s forced collectivization in Ukraine in the 1930s resulted in the

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starvation and death of millions of people