Rights and Responsibilities

Quiz
Student Name Aon Tarawneh

Please choose the correct answer by changing the color to red

• The earliest document outlining universal human rights in modern times is known as
• The hamourabi text
• The universal Declaration of human rights
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child

• When a country express interest in the principles of a convention but do not wish to legally
bound and commit, they can:
• Sign the convention
• Ratify the convention
• Make reservations

• Living in extreme poverty means

• Living on less than $ 1.9 a day
• Having access to food but no shelter
• Not having a formal job

• When someone is forced to leave their country to a neighboring country in an attempt to

resettle in another, they are known as
• Refugees
• Migrant worker
• Asylum- Seeker

• Vulnerable groups is a term that refers to

• Individuals and groups which are at higher risk of poverty and social exclusion
• Includes women, children, elderly, minorities, people with disabilities
• All of the above
Question Two: Please identify which rights are being violated in the following scenarios.
Scenario one: X country’s military commander banned all trade unions and their activities.
1-The right to join a trade union
2-The right to work

Scenario two: During her probationary period at work (three month according to labour law), Lara
discovered that she was pregnant. Her employer immediately denounced the contract and asked her
to leave.
1- Discrimination against women

Question three: Although slavery was abolished in the 19h century, it remains a pressing human rights
violation in our current times. Please discuss this statement keeping in mind what you learned in class.
There are many slavery types like human trafficking , forced and early marriage . States and people
both violate these rights , such as China in laogai prison. There are hundreds and thousands of people
imprisoned for the purpose of exploiting them to growth the economic .Even if slavery is abolished,
we must understand that the right to be free from it and the right to do away with the customs of
holding people in conditions where they are used as tools for cleaning and service as if they had a
right of ownership over them rather than as living, breathing human beings .