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This set of Human Rights and International Law Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Human Rights And International Law Set 3

Q1 | Which of the following is not a principle aim of the UN?
  • to promote international law
  • to facilitate co-operation among states
  • to ensure world peace
  • to ensure economic development for minorities
Q2 | Which Article of UDHR concerns the Right to benefit from scientific advancement?
  • article 3
  • article 14
  • article 27
  • article 24
Q3 | The International Criminal Court is located at
  • paris
  • geneva
  • the hague
  • brussels
Q4 | The Directive Principles of State Policy have been given in the Indian Constitution
  • part – iii
  • part – ii
  • part – xiii
  • part – iv
Q5 | When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) made?
  • 10th december 1948
  • 8th august 1956
  • 20th june 1950
  • 10th november 1942
Q6 | Who cannot be appointed as member of the National Human Rights Commission?
  • district judge
  • chief justice of any high court
  • eminent scholar having expertise in the field of human rights.
  • judge of the supreme court of india.
Q7 | Mention the name of the instrument which set international standards of human rights
  • geneva convention
  • european convention on human
  • african charter on human rights & people’s rights
  • arab charter on human rights
Q8 | Which case decided by the Indian Judiciary provided jurisprudential genesis forhuman rights development in India?
  • m.c. mehta v. union of india
  • maneka gandhi v. union of india
  • visakha v. state of rajasthan
  • mandal case
Q9 | Which international event resulted into the beginning of the international movement of the contemporary concept of human rights?
  • incidents of discrimination
  • inhuman treatment during tudor’s period
  • slavery
  • world war ii
Q10 | Name the basic international instrument, which does not carry binding effect
  • magna carta
  • cedaw
  • universal declaration of human rights
  • geneva conventions
Q11 | Who coined the term ‘Genocide’?
  • raphael lemkin
  • robert h. jackson
  • martin shaw
  • woodrow wilson
Q12 | Who of the following was the main mover behind the Universal Declaration of HumanRights?
  • woodrow wilson
  • franklin d. roosevelt
  • thomas paine
  • eleanor roosevelt
Q13 | Third Generation of Human Rights is also known as
  • citizen’s rights
  • developmental rights
  • group rights
  • women’s rights
Q14 | Who among the following defined rights as “those conditions of social life withoutwhich no man can reacts in general, to be his best”?
  • harold j. laski
  • bernard bosanquet
  • leonard hobhouse
  • hurst hannum
Q15 | In which case Supreme Court held that Parliament has no power to amend theFundamental Rights?
  • golak nath case
  • sajjan singh case
  • shankari prasad case
  • none of these
Q16 | The protection of Human Rights Act in India was enacted in the year
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1995
  • 1996
Q17 | Who introduced the concept of third generation Human Rights?
  • tulliuscesero
  • jermy bentham
  • john finnis
  • karel vasak
Q18 | Which one of the following is not a UN Agency?
  • unicef
  • unesco
  • wto
  • ilo
Q19 | Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Refugees?
  • they are outside their country
  • fear of persecution
  • absence of national protection
  • poverty as reason of being outside the country
Q20 | Who among the following propounded the modern principles of Natural Justice?
  • locke
  • j.s. mill
  • a.v. dicey
  • john rawals
Q21 | Crimes against humanity is defined as acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. Which of the following is an example of crimes against humanity?
  • genocide
  • aggression
  • enslavement
  • killing members of the group
Q22 | Which article of the Rome Statute of the ICC provides for individual criminalresponsibility?
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
Q23 | Are there any limits to the application of Article 103 of the UN Charter?
  • yes, it is limited by jus cogens norms
  • yes, it is limited by treaties
  • yes, it is limited by the pronouncements of the icj
  • no limits
Q24 | Which of the following is not a regional human rights instruments?
  • the african charter on human and peoples’ rights for africa
  • the american convention on human rights for the americas
  • the european convention on human rights for europe
  • the convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
Q25 | What is a derogation?
  • to follow a variation of certain human rights on a regional level.
  • the suspension of particular rights (but not fundamental ones) for a specific period of time during a public emergency that threatens the life of a nation.
  • violation of human rights by the executive.
  • suspension of human rights during a public emergency