Human Rights
Topic A: Malnutrition
Topic B: Aiding methods to prevent famine
Topic A:Articles
Topic B: Articles
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The right to something.
What is a prescriptive right?
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Insufficient, excessive or imbalanced consumption of nutrients.
What is Malnutrition?
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A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage. A drastic shortage; a dearth. Severe hunger; starvation.
What is famine?
100
vaccines against cholera, polio and typhoid fever.
What vaccines are affected by malnutrition?
100
260,000.
Approximately how many people died due to the Somalia Famine?
200
The right to remain free from something.
What is a proscriptive right?
200
Occurs since populations try to compensate for the lacking nutrients, or foods, with other types that are abundant in their environment, creating an excess of certain types of nutrients in the populations diet.
Why is malnutrition so abundant?
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Natural disasters and a weak/unstructured government.
What are the main two causes of famine?
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aggression and antisocial behavior.
What type of behavior does malnutrition cause on children?
200
Provided 300,000 Ethiopian families with 2,000 tons of seed and 1 million farm tools after the famine.
What did IFAD“s program do in sub-Saharan Africa in 1983?
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The belief that one is born with specific rights regardless of culture.
What is Universalism?
300
Malnutrition relates directly with human rights since human rights play a vital role in ensuring food and nutrition to every person. It also relates to human rights because it goes against the original right to nutrition.
Why is malnutrition related directly with Human Rights?
300
prescriptive.
Is aid to prevent famine prescriptive or proscriptive?
300
300,000 children.
How many children in Iraq face death due to acute malnutrition?
300
The World Food Programme.
Which was the only organization aiding North Korea to prevent famine in 2005?
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The belief that rights are subjective depending one ones culture/origin.
What is Relativism?
400
Consuming the adequate amount of nutrients.
What is nutrition?
400
Because it goes hand in hand with the existing right to nutrition that people have.
Why can aiding countries suffering from famine be viewed as a human right?
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Because of water supply distribution and food shortages.
Why are Typhoid fever and malnutrition spreading in Iraq?
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12 million.
How many people faced starvation when the Somalia famine spread to three new regions?
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December 10th.
When is Human Rights Day?
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proscriptive.
Is malnutrition proscriptive or prescriptive?
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Death and low immunity/body defense.
What are two consequences that famine can bring?
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40 million people.
How many people have been affected by the rising malnutrition in Mexico?
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Nicosia, Cyprus.
Where did the agricultural ministers meet to discuss famine?