This court tries people for crimes against humanity.
What is the ICC?
100
Information collected about populations of countries is done through this.
What is a census?
100
Countries at the bottom of the UN development index are called this.
What are Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)?
100
OPEC
What is Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries?
200
People who are hired to deal with lawmakers and politicians are recognized by this name.
What are lobbyists?
200
In 1960 John Diefenbaker's government created this document to uphold human rights in Canada, though it did not come into full effect until 1982.
What is the Canadian Bill of Rights?
200
The way demographers calculate the doubling time for a countries population is with this.
What is the rule of 70?
200
In 2000 this initiative was adopted to close the gap in global living standards.
What are the Millennium Development Goals?
200
OECD
What is Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development?
300
People who believe the government should play a critical role in the operation the economy and the society follow this political ideology.
What is socialism?
300
This clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms allows the federal, provincial or territorial governments to pass a law even if it violates the Charter.
What is the notwithstanding clause?
300
This is used to explain changes that occur in population.
What is Demographic Transition Model?
300
A large scale, costly venture to help develop infrastructure.
What is a megaproject?
300
IMF
What is International Monetary Fund?
400
Term used to describe a lack of democracy and, instead, focus on complete control.
What is totalitarianism?
400
According to this rating scale, Canada ranked 4th in the world in 2009.
What is the Human Development Index?
400
This graph shows the age and gender structure of a population.
What is a population pyramid?
400
This agricultural problem is destroying cropland in places like Sub-Sharan Africa.
What is desertification?
400
CIDA
What is Canadian International Development Agency?
500
To gain a seat during an election the MP must get to this point before other candidates.
What is be the First to the Post?
500
This United Nations document has been ratified to advocate for children.
What is the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child?
500
The proportion of the population that is being supported by the working age group.
What is the dependency ratio?
500
This system explains why indebted countries and families cannot escape poor conditions.
What is the Poverty Cycle?
500
UHDR
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?