1. From what do individuals get their human rights?
Correct Answer: Birth
2. What does right to live mean?
Correct Answer: Right to live with dignity
3. Why does there have to be an increased awareness about human rights?
Correct Answer: To uproot terrorism and do away with exploitation and insecurity.
4. What is meant by the right to acquire nationality?
Correct Answer: Right of an individual to get the status of a citizen in his/her country.
5. Why has India established the National Human Rights Commission?
Correct Answer: For the protection of human rights.
6. What is meant by human rights?
Correct Answer: Right of every person to live a dignified life and develop himself without facing any discrimination on the basis of religion, gender, caste, race or country.
7. Why does no one have the authority to take away human rights?
Correct Answer: Human rights are from birth itself. No one bestows these rights.
8. Write five articles from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Correct Answer: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement. Everyone has the right to freedom from arbitrary arrest. Everyone has the right to own property. Everyone has the right to freedom of Everyone has the freedom of thought and religion. Everyone has the right to vote.
9. Write about the structure of the National Human Rights Commission in India.
Correct Answer: NHRC has a retired Supreme Court judge as Chairperson and six members who include retired or in-service judges of the Supreme Court or High Court, Chairpersons of National Commission for Minorities and National Commision for Women and two experts who have worked in protecting human rights.
10. When did the United Nations proclaim the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Correct Answer: 10 December 1948
11. When did India establish the National Human Rights Commission?
12. What has given a boost to international co-operation?
Correct Answer: Globalisation
13. Which nations are placed low on the Human Development Index?
Correct Answer: Poor
14. What has led to an integration of economies?
Correct Answer: Globalisation
15. What are the fields in which different countries have transactions with one another?
Correct Answer: Economy, trade, culture, science and technology, etc.
16. To solve what problems do poor countries have to take special efforts?
Correct Answer: Poverty, unemployment, social backwardness and political instability.
17. What is globalisation?
Correct Answer: Free movement and give and take of information technology, capital, people, market and commodities between countries.
18. What economic reforms did India bring about after 1990?
Correct Answer: Opened markets for other countries and removed restrictions on trade.
19. Where do we see the advantages of technological progress?
Correct Answer: Reduced geographical distance between countries and within countries. Monetary investment and transaction became very easy. Health sector improved.
20. On what does the UN lay special emphasis on resolving conflicts through?
Correct Answer: peaceful methods
21. What International Day has the UN declared 8 March as?
Correct Answer: Women's Day
22. What Year did the UN declare the Year 1975 as?
Correct Answer: Women's
23. How does the UN expect the nations to resolve their disputes and disagreements?
Correct Answer: Through negotiations, mediation or goodwill
24. When does the UN use the method of direct action?
Correct Answer: If the issues are not resolved by peaceful means
25. What work did the Indian Peace Keeping Force do in Somalia?
Correct Answer: Digging wells, supplying water, running schools, providing health services, etc.
26. What issues were discussed in the Earth Summit in 1992?
Correct Answer: Depletion of Ozone layer, protection of forests and other natural resources, bio-diversity and control over pollution.
27. Why has the UN declared International Women's Day?
Correct Answer: To draw the attention of the world towards women's issues and to find solutions to them.
28. What is disarmament?
Correct Answer: Idea that international peace can be established if armaments are destroyed, their production is stopped or there are limits on the use of armaments.
30. Which assembly/council has representatives of all member countries as members?
Correct Answer: General Assembly
31. When was the Trusteeship Council dissolved?
Correct Answer: 1 November 1994
32. Where is the Secretariat of UN?
Correct Answer: New York
33. Where is the International Court of Justice based?
Correct Answer: The Hague
34. Where are the Headquarters of International Labour Organization?
Correct Answer: Geneva
35. Where are the Headquarters of Food and Agriculture Organization?
Correct Answer: Rome
36. Where are the Headquarters of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization?
Correct Answer: Paris
37. Where are the Headquarters of World Health Organization?
Correct Answer: Geneva
38. Where are the Headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency?
Correct Answer: Vienna
39. What is binding on all member countries of the United Nations?
Correct Answer: To resolve international issues only through peaceful means
40. Name the five permanent members of the Security Council
Correct Answer: United States of America, Russia, China, United Kingdom, France
41. Why was the Economic and Social Council established?
Correct Answer: To co-ordinate the social and economic functions of the UN
42. What is veto power?
Correct Answer: Right to reject any decision
43. What are the functions of the International Court of Justice?
Correct Answer: Adjudicating the disputes between two or more member countries, providing the right interpretation to international laws, norms and traditions, etc.
44. What are the functions of the Security Council?
Correct Answer: Maintaining international peace and security, probing into international disputes, suggesting ways to resolves issues, taking military or economic actions against aggressor countries if necessary, etc.
45. What are the objectives of the United Nations?
Correct Answer: (1) To enhance international peace and security. (2) To develop friendly relations among nations. (3) To resolve all international issues through peaceful means. (4) To protect and promote human rights and freedom.
46. What are the functions of the General Assembly?
Correct Answer: Pass resolutions regarding international peace and security. Discuss Security Council reports and pass UN budget. Elect non-permanent members of Security Council and members of the Economic and Social Council.
47. What are the functions of the Economic and Social Council?
Correct Answer: Initiating discussions on poverty, social and economic inequalities, apartheid, etc., to create awareness about human rights and freedom, to undertake projects about social, cultural and educational issues, etc.
60. Which country's foreign policy's characteristic feature is opposition to colonialism and imperialism?
Correct Answer: India's
61. Who officially put for the principles of Panchsheel in 1954?
Correct Answer: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
62. Who was the President of Yugoslavia?
Correct Answer: Marshal Tito
63. Who was the President of Egypt?
Correct Answer: Gamal Abdel Naser
64. Who was the President of Indonesia?
Correct Answer: Sukarno
65. Who was the Prime Minister of Ghana?
Correct Answer: Kwame Nkrumah
66. What does Article 51 of the Indian Constitution guide us about?
Correct Answer: How we should conduct our international affairs and transactions
67. What does the Non-Aligned Movement oppose?
Correct Answer: Colonialism, imperialism and apartheid (racism)
68. What are the values on which Non-Aligned Movement is based?
Correct Answer: Eternal values of humanism, international peace and equality
69. What are the objectives of India's foreign policy?
Correct Answer: (1) To promote international peace and security. (2) To maintain just and honourable relations between nations. (3) To foster respect for international law. (4) To encourage the resolving of international issues peacefully and through Tribunals.
70. What are the Panchsheel principles of India's foreign policy?
Correct Answer: (1) Mutual respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty. (2) Mutual non-aggression. (3) Mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs. (4) Equality and mutual benefit. (5) Peaceful coexistence.
71. What confidence has the Non-Aligned Movement given to less developed countries?
Correct Answer: To stand with dignity in international politics
73. What is in the interest of every nation to have among nations based on friendly relations?
Correct Answer: Interdependence
74. Which independent policy has close relationship with economy?
Correct Answer: Foreign
75. Which decisions are the sovereign nations free to take?
Correct Answer: Right decisions for the welfare of the people living in their regions
76. What kind of relations are there among nations?
Correct Answer: Political, economic, trade-related and cultural
77. Which countries are called 'sovereign' countries?
Correct Answer: The countries that are free from external control and supreme with regard to internal matters, carrying on with their work independently
78. Which qualities among the citizens increase the strength of a nation?