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A "negative" or "phorbidden" right, usually professde by western countries. Those things that the government cannot do to groups, such as discriminate based on race, ethnicity or gender. They involve what cannot be done legally.
What is Proscriptive Human Rights
100
A countries that will be debated in Topic Area A (6)
What is Syria, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Libya
100
Syria agreed to abandon its chemical weapons by June under a deal proposed by Russia and hashed out with the United States after an Aug. 21 sarin gas attack that Western nations blamed on President ____________ forces.
What is Bashar al-Assad's
100
Event that led to the creation of the United Nations after the Allies won the war to promote international peace and security.
What is World War II
100
The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
What is Human Rights
200
A "positive" or "obligated" human right, usually professed by eastern countries. They include the basic necessities that a society and its government are arguably prescribed (obligated) to try to provide in order to assure certain qualitative standards of life for everyone in the community-
What is prescriptive Human Rights
200
the use of poisonous gas in World War I led to the first international agreement, banning asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and bacteriological methods of warfare. (name and year of agreement)
What is the 1925 Geneva Protocol
200
War, bad weather, bureaucracy and technical issues meant a ___________ deadline for the removal of the most deadly toxins from Syria was missed.
What is December 31
200
Main deliberative organ of the United Nations and includes all its Members
What is General Assembly
200
Counts as 20% of your overall grade. Will help you define the position of your country in a specific topic, express your country`s ideas to solve the issues at hand and learn more about the problems facing the world today.
What are Position Papers
300
a belief that all humans possess the same rights and that they are timeless and changeless. These rights originate from somewhere outside of society, possibly from a deity or from our common humanity.
What is universalism.
300
Government responsable for the safe packaging, transport along roads to Latakia - including the main highway from the capital where rebels are still active - and removal of chemical weapons.
What is Syria government
300
The 1993 ______________ extended the prohibition on use in the 1925 Protocol to the development, production, stockpiling, retention and transfer of chemical weapons, including their delivery systems. It also covered their destruction.
What is Chemical Weapon Convention (CWC)
300
UN’s main judicial organ. Presiding over the ____, or “World Court”, are 15 judges, each from a different nation, elected by the General Assembly and Security Council.
What is the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
300
When the Moderator calls the name of your country please respond by saying _______
What is "present"
400
A belief that all rights are based on culture and that they are merely the “product” of a society’s values. This means that rights are not timeless and that they can change as culture & society changes. A relativist holds that human rights originate from within society.
What is relativism
400
A southern Italian port, one of the busiest in Europe, which will be the transfer point for hundreds of tons of the most deadly Syrian chemical weapon compounds en route to their neutralization at sea.
What is Gioia Tauro
400
It is considered 20 times as deadly as cyanide and is impossible to detect because it is a clear, colourless and tasteless liquid that has no odour in its purest form. It can also evaporate and spread through the air.
What is Sarin.
400
Primary responsibility under the Charter for maintaining peace and security
What is Security Council
400
An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world. It was founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development.
What is the United Nations (UN)
500
Arms control treaty which outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons and their precursors, an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, Netherlands. The treaty entered into force in 1997.
What is Chemical Weapon Proliferation Act.
500
More than __________ have been killed in the rebel-on-rebel clashes in Syria since they began on Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition monitoring group.
What is 274 people
500
Symptoms appear within a few seconds after exposure to the vapour form of __, and within a few minutes after exposure to the liquid form. As with sarin, ___ attacks the nervous system.
What is VX
500
Current Secretary General of the UN. Took office for a second term on January 1 2007
What is Ban Ki-moon
500
The organisation that was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize because it had, with the Chemical Weapons Convention,"defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law" according to Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. (name of this committee)
What is Oprganization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
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