Human Rights
Topic Area A:
Illegal Arms Trade
Topic Area B:
Nuclear Weapons
Articles
Anything
100
Give an Example of a Proscriptive right? Prescriptive Right? Universalism? Relativism?
Proscriptive: Chemical Weapons Attacks Censorship Discrimination based on sexual orientation Prescriptive: Education Clean Water Basic Health Care Universalists - All girls are entitled to the same education as boys. Period. Relativists - A government, say maybe the Taliban, can refuse to educate their girls if that position represents the collective values of their society. Universalists - all humans have the right to life and therefore no government should be able to execute its criminals Relativists - A government has the right to execute its criminals if the majority of its society find that policy to be morally acceptable
100
What are illegal arms?
Illegal Arms: weapons that are trafficked/smuggled
100
Nuclear Weapons: explosive device that derives its destructive force form nuclear reactions. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Cities were nuclear bombs were dropped in 1945
Define Nuclear Weapons? and Name the cities that were nuked in 1945?
100
Mention 1 of the 3 countries that oppose the treaty
Syria, Iran, North Korea
100
Exact name of the dress code of ASFMUN 2014
Western Business Attire
200
What is Relativism?
Relativists 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. A relativist holds that human rights originate from within society. (Rourke, 2008).
200
Mention at least 3 guiding questions
Should governments spend money combating the illegal arms trade? Should all arms trade be legal? Should all arms trade be illegal? To what extent does the illegal trade of arms affect international peace??What can be done to combat this issue? To what extent is the argument that illegal arms end up in hands of criminals is correct? What are the purposes of having weapons? Are weapons the real cause of human suffering? What are the benefits of allowing free arms trade?
200
What are possible guiding questions for conference preparation? (mention 3 or more)
During periods of conflict what should be done with nuclear weapons? Should Nuclear Weapons be banned? What are the purposes for a country to own nuclear weapons? What are the benefits of having Nuclear Weapons? What are the advantages and Disadvantages of owning Nuclear Weapons? Is it justified to make produce Nuclear Weapons? How can Nuclear Weapons benefit humanity? What should be done to prevent human suffering in concern with Nuclear Weapons?
200
When did Russia have its first test
1949
200
Disarmament: the act of reducing, limiting, abolishing weapons.
What is Disarmament?
300
What is Universalism?
Universalists believe 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 (Rourke, 2008).
300
What type of Human rights does this topic relate
Proscriptive Rights
300
What type of Human Rights does Nuclear Weapons deal with and why?
The disarmament of Nuclear Weapons deals with proscribed rights. Humans should not be victims of nuclear activity and should not be subject of possible nuclear violence that can damage their health, security and patrimony. Humans should be free form of all of these abuses that do not choose to form part of.
300
How much is the global weapons trade worth?
70 Billion Dollars
300
What is the theme of ASFMUN2014?
Human Rights
400
What are prescriptive rights?
Prescribed = Obligated “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...
400
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Obtain 400 points
400
In what year did the United Nations create a commission to control the use of nuclear weapons?
1946
400
How many countries have signed the Arms trade treaty?
107
400
October 24, 1945
When was the United Nations created?
500
What are proscriptive rights?
Forbidden. “...those things that the government cannot do to groups, such as discriminate based on race, ethnicity or gender…such rights [proscriptive] are also called negative rights, because they involve what cannot be done legally” (Rourke, 2008, p. 453).
500
Name and purpose of the treaty made by the United Nations on April 2, 2013?
Most recently on April 2, 2013, the United Nations in order to address the weakly regulated international arms trade, the General Assembly voted in favor of the Arms Trade Treaty. A treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional arms, from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships
500
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) and finally the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Names of the three treaties created to control Nuclear Weapons or abbreviations
500
What country had the first Nuclear test
USA
500
When (year) was the United Nations Disarmament Commission created?
1952
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