Human Rights
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Negative rights. Those things that the government cannot do to groups, such as discriminate based on race, ethnicity or gender
What are proscriptive rights?
100
The act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime.
What is surveillance?
100
Two groups of islands are under contention which China claims possession of in their entirety
What are the Paracel and Spartly islands?
100
This entity was the one that figured out that Mexico does not trust the US.
What is National Security Agency?
100
This nation's soldiers (dozens of them) were killed in a bloody battle with Chinese troops over the disputed islands of the South China Sea.
What happened to the Vietnamese soldiers?
200
Positive rights because they place a positive obligation on societies and their governments to ensure that they are met. They involve basic human necessities.
What are prescriptive rights?
200
Actions done to find out secrets from competitors or enemies.
What is espionage?
200
This UN Convention states that coastal states have the right to establish sovereignty over adjacent waters out to a maximum of 12 nautical miles from the nation's coastline, including the coastline of offshore islands. These enclosed waters are known as the coastal state's territorial sea.
What is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
200
This specialist stated that all though the public is focused on which persons the NSA has spied on, the important matter is figuring out what did the espionage reveal to the US about Mexico.
What does the specialist on Mexican justice really think is important about what the NSA figured out?
200
These three nations claimed full property of the islands in the South China Sea prior to the Vietnamese battle.
What did Vietnam, China and Taiwan claim?
300
Term to describe the possition of those who believe that all humans possess the same rights and that they are timeless and changeless
What is universalism?
300
This act allows law enforcement to use surveillance against more crimes of terror. Purpose: Investigate organized crime and drug traffic.
What is the Patriot Act?
300
Seazone prescribed by the UNCLOS over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches from the baseline out to 200 nautical miles from its coast. In colloquial usage, the term may include the territorial sea and even the continental shelf beyond the 200-mile limit.
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
300
This nation has been unable to reach an agreement with the rest of the European Union regarding online privacy rules because there is a lot of lobbying by Sillicon Valley and other powerful groups in this nation.
What is Brussels?
300
Number of Vietnamese warships that sank during the battle against China?
What happened to one of the warships?
400
Term to describe the position of those who hold that 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.
What is relativism?
400
Revealed himself as the source of documents outlining a massive effort by the U.S. National Security Agency to track cell phone calls and monitor the e-mail and Internet traffic of virtually all Americans
Who is Edward Snowden?
400
This nation ignored Chinese claims on the South China Sea and was the second nation (after US) to enter China's EEZ without permission.
What is Vietnam?
400
Investigator from the University of San Diego who said that all though both the US and Mexico have equal responsibility over the Iniciativa Merida, Mexico still does not belong to the US's "circle of trust"
Who is David Shirk?
400
Up to 1975 this government claimed the Parcel archipielago?
What did the US backed Saigon government claim?
500
This government accused the United States for violating prescriptive human rights.
What is the Chinese government?
500
Aircraft either controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission. (do not give me the nickname, give me official name)
What are Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), also known as drones?
500
On this date, China’s Hainan province required all foreign fishing vessels to ask permission to enter more than half of the 3.5 million-square-kilometer
What happened in 1 January, 2014 in regards to the South China Sea?
500
Number of amendments that the government and other organizations from the European Union have submitted to edit the proposed law against spying.
What are 4,000 amendments for?
500
On this date a clash erupted between South Vietnamese navy and the Chinese forces.
What happened in 19 January of 1974?
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