Human Rights
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What do Relativists believe in ?
Relativist 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
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What is the definition of trafficking?
Deal or trade in something illegal
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Name where the two most destructive boomings took place?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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why is it important to stop Iran's program?
It will make it easier to persuade North Korea to make a similar deal and other nations not to begin programs. It would also help create the security conditions necessary for the eight nuclear-armed states to consider cuts in their arsenals.
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How many terrorist attacks were identified in last year's State Department report on Patterns of Global Terrorism?
175 terrorist attacks
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What do Universalists believe in ?
They believe that all humans possess the same rights and that they are timeless and changeless.
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What is the definition of Arsenals?
A collection of weapons and military equipment.
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What is the Atomic Age?
is a phrase typically used to delineate the period of history following the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Trinity, on July 16, 1945.
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What is the name of the current president of Iran?Is he still working on the nuclear power project?
Hassan Rouhani, since Rouhani became president, the output of the nuclear program has stagnated.
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What is the most common way that small arms are vulnerable to theft or "loss"?
Government arsenals
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Describe the definition Prescriptive Human Rights
“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...
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Why is stockpile management the main cause of Illicit trade of arms?
When the government has a surplus of weapons instead destroying them they stock them so they are easily leaked and enter the trade cycle.
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What is the definition of Disarmament?
the reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons.
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Why did the emergency crews responding to the accident in Chernobyl used sand and boron on the reactor waste?
The sand was to stop the fire and additional releases of radioactive material; the boron was to prevent additional nuclear reactions.
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Describe the term Illicit grey market transfers
Governments , their agents , or individuals exploiting loopholes or intentionally avoid national and/or international laws or policies.
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describe the definition of Proscriptive Human Rights
“...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”
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Is topic A a proscriptive or prescriptive right?
The trade of guns is proscriptive because everyone has the right from violence, we have the right to be protected and safe and the trade of guns denies these rights from all of the people around the world.
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Is topic B proscriptive or prescriptive?
Nuclear weapons are proscriptive right because everyone has the right from violence, we have the right to be protected and safe from these weapons.
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Define Illegal black market transfers
In clear violation of national and/or international laws and without official government consent or control, these transfers may involve corrupt government officials acting on their own for personal gain.
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Name the top 4 arms exporters worldwide
1-United States 2-Russia 3-France 4- United Kingdom
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Name 8 human rights
1. We Are All Born Free and Equal 2. Don’t Discriminate 3. The Right to Life 4. No Slavery 5. No Torture 6. You Have Rights No Matter Where You Go 7. We’re All Equal Before the Law 8. Your Human Rights Are Protected by Law 9. No Unfair Detainment 10. The Right to Trial 11. We’re Always Innocent Till Proven Guilty 12. The Right to Privacy 13. Freedom to Move 14. The Right to Seek a Safe Place to Live 15. Right to a Nationality 16. Marriage and Family 17. The Right to Your Own Things 18. Freedom of Thought 19. Freedom of Expression 20. The Right to Public Assembly 21. The Right to Democracy 22. Social Security 23. Workers’ Rights 24. The Right to Play 25. Food and Shelter for All 26. The Right to Education 27. Copyright 28. A Fair and Free World 29. Responsibility 30. No One Can Take Away Your Human Rights
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Give 2 examples of how Illicit trade of small arms decrease human development ?
Worsen poverty; discourage access to social services and channel energy and resources away. It also affects the country’s economic status
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What does the first resolution that was established by the United Nations General Assembly states
it plans out a way of control for atomic energy to the level required to make certain that the use of them would only be for peaceful motives. Also to make a scheme so the elimination of all national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons that caused mass destruction.
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Describe the Victor "The Devil" Infante incident with small arms
On July 30th, 2003 U.S. law enforcement officials observed an associate of Victor "The Devil" Infante sending a Federal Express package from Los Angeles to the Philippines. Infante was under investigation at the time for operating a multinational firearms and methamphetamine distribution ring. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) officials interdicted the Fed Ex package and the accompanying airway bill, which falsely identified the contents as a $30 camera tripod. Inside the package, agents found parts for M-16 and AR-15 assualt rifles.
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Explain the Otterloo incident
In 2001, an Israeli arms dealer operating out of Panama duped the Nicaraguan government into selling him 3000 AK-47s and 2.5 million rounds of ammunition. The broker said that he was procuring the weapons on behalf of the Panamanian National Police, a claim ostensibly substantiated by a Panamanian end-user certificate. It was a lie. The end-user certificate was a forgery and the Panamanians had no knowledge of the deal. On November 2nd, the weapons were loaded into a Panamanian-registered ship named the Otterloo, which departed from the Nicaraguan port of El Bluff the next day. Two days later, it arrived in Colombia where the actual recipients - members of Colombia's vicious paramilitary groups - were waiting to claim their prize.
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