MEDIA LITERACY
The country that publishes RT.
What is Russia?
“Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.” A statement made by which global change-maker in January 2024.
Who is Jane Goodall?
Name the treaty that in 1648 established the principal of sovereignty.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
This is a global political commitment adopted in 2005 to protect vulnerable populations from international crimes like genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.
What is Responsibility to Protect?
Name the term that means excising certain investments from endowments.
What is divestment?
Name the President killed recently in a helicopter crash.
Who is Ebrahim Raisi?
The English language news channel/ online newspaper funded in part by the government of Qatar.
What is Al Jazeera?
Name a global company that has been in the news for labor exploitation but has tried to turn its reputation around through philanthropic work.
Who is Nike?
BONUS: Name the program that the Nike Foundation developed to bring attention to girls education.
Name the country that exports the most weapons.
Who is the USA?
Bonus: What percentage of global arms exports?
In 1859 the Battle of Solferino-- part of the struggle for Italian unification-- led Henry Dunant to push for the creation of a neutral and impartial organization to protect and assist the war wounded.
Who is the International Committee of the Red Cross?
Name one of the dances that South Africans used for protesting apartheid.
What is toyi-toyi OR pantsula?
The number of people living in modern slavery in the world.
What is 50 million?
Who could be Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan, N. Korea, Iran, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Bahrain, China, Myanmar, and Egypt? (worst to less worse)
A Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Prize winner, known for the Green Belt Movement.
Who is Wangari Maathai?
Name one of the top five failed states in the world.
Who is Somalia, Yemen, S. Sudan, DR Congo, and Syria? (worst to less worse)
Name a human rights treaty that came out of the ideals set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is....
Racial Discrimination, Discrimination against Women, Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Rights of the Child, Rights of Migrants, Disappeared Persons, Persons with Disabilities, and Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide?
This Maidan Revolution was a reaction to the refusal by whose president in 2013 to sign an association agreement (an extensive free-trade deal) with the European Union, resulting in first the departure of the president, a reversal by the new government on the trade deal, and then a military invasion.
Where is Ukraine?
The location of the 2024 doctors' strike that began on February 20, 2024 where doctors expressed dissatisfaction with the announcement of new government policies on significantly increasing the medical student quotas going forward.
Where is South Korea?
Name the technological tool that journalists and students used in China in 1989 to notify the world of what was happening,. ,
What is a fax machine?
The royal who was instrumental in creating a treaty to ban the use of landmines in 1997.
Country that has agreed to pay First Nations peoples $800 million in acknowledgement of the failure to honor a land dispute over treaty rights from the late 19th century.
Who is Canada?
Development is a human right which is supported by the Sustainable Development Goals, of which there are _____ in number.
What is 17?
In 2011, Ganzeer created street art in Tahrir Square in __________ as part of the Arab uprisings.
Where is Egypt?
Michelle Obama, Melinda Gates, and __________ visited Africa recently together in order to advocate for girls education.
Who is Amal Clooney?
The original nations that comprise the BRICS.
Who is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa?
BUT ALSO NOW Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates
Name an NGO involved in animal conservation, including the trafficking in ivory, helping to implement CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 1975 treaty.
Who is World Wildlife Fund?
The Forum on China and Africa Cooperation, formed in 2000, has been increasingly important to Beijing due to what initiative?
What is the Belt Road Initiative?
Name the Somali- Canadian rapper who was a refugee themselves and is now an advocate for refugee rights, something he brings awareness to through his music.
Who is K'Naan?
BONUS: Provide the acronym of the UN organization that works with refugees.
The Troubles officially ended 20 years ago in N. Ireland, following the signing of what agreement-- something that came about after protests that included marches, violence, street murals, hunger strikes, and prison sentences.
What is the Good Friday Agreement?
On a sunny April afternoon in 2006, thousands of people flocked to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a rally with celebrities, Olympic athletes, and rising political stars. Their cause: garner international support to halt a genocide. Today, 18 years later, there is genocide approaching again in the same place and there are no marches or protests.
Where is Sudan’s Darfur region?
What is Huawei?
Sara Mardini is an activist working in Greece and Germany, a competitive swimmer, and a former refugee from what country?
Where is Syria?
The specific crime that the ICC has charged Vladimir Putin with.
What is war crimes of “unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”?
(Ukraine has reports of over 110,000 war crimes committed in Ukraine by Russian troops.)
In Ningxia and Gansu provinces, authorities have embarked on a “mosque consolidation” scheme, where Islamic religious venues are closed, destroyed, or repurposed. The plan is part of a systematic effort to curb the practice of Islam in the country, in violation of religious freedom. What country is this?
Where is China?
Women in Argentina protested their missing children after they had disappeared under the rule of the military junta. What symbol of protest did they use?
What is white scarves?
This university says it will no longer take positions on matters outside of the university. The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. This is in response to campus protests across the country in recent weeks.
Where is Harvard University?