ACRONYMS
HDI
What is human development indicator
Life expectancy measures is a measure of this
What is the average time a person is expected to live?
The situation in which a person lacks the resources and essentials to enjoy a minimum standard of life.
What is poverty
The organisation that establish a universal document stipulating a code of Human Rights for every country.
What is the UN
Communities built independently from the government or council's jurisdiction
What is favelas
NGO
What is Non-Government Organisation
A measure of the general health of an economy?
What is Gross Domestic Product
This term refers to the attempt to annihilate an entire group of people
What is genocide
The recognition that everyone around the world, regardless of geography, age, culture, religion or political environment, aspires to live well. It is measured by combining facts and figures with indicators that have a bearing on people's lives.
What is Human Wellbeing
The group with ensuring law and order is met in Brazilian slums
What is Police Pacifying Unit (UPP)
HPI
What is Happy Planet Index
The monetary value of how much an individual or a household earns
What is income
When males and females are not treated equally
What is gender inequality
A person who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, economic hardships, war etc
What is a refugee
The group that are responsible for building and maintaining the slums
What is the people/communities living there
UNHRC
What is United National Human Rights Council
A measure how well a country's citizens can read or write?
Literacy Rates
Data that can be measured precisely with numbers
What is quantitative data
The right to this ensures that the government will not eavesdrop on your phone conversations
What is privacy
The group of four nations that account for 25% of the world's land and 40% of the population, and are transitioning into Developed Countries
What is Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC)
GDP
What is Gross Domestic Product
The three measurements combined to determine a HDI score?
What is life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
The capacity to use resources so that they are managed and maintained for future use.
What is sustainability
The term to describe how the UN declaration of Human Rights is focused on the west.
What is Euro-Centric
Reasons for Brazil improving its economic standing
What is taxation and trade of natural resources