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Human Rights
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Topic B
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What are prescribed rights?
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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What is the topic?
Children Stunting in Africa
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) how many million people or what percentage of the population of the Central African Republic need urgent assistance in the "UNICEF urges action to prevent child deaths..." article?
1.3 million people, or 40% of the population
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What is topic B?
The Syrian Civil War and its Effects on Health
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According to the article "How Syria sank into all-out civil war" what has been Assad's consistent strategy?
Do whatever is necessary to ensure regime survival.
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What are proscribed rights?
Those things that the government cannot do to groups, such as discriminate based on race, ethnicity or gender…such rights are also called negative rights, because they involve what cannot be done legally.
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What is chronic malnutrition?
Synonym of children stunting, outlines the effects in a child’s body and brain as a result of malnutrition in their 1,000 days of life.
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Before violence erupted in Bangui, how many children were being treated for acute malnutrition according to the "UNICEF urges action to prevent child deaths..." article?
1,000 children were being treated.
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What is the Arab Spring?
A series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellion that spread throughout the Middle East in early 2011
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According to the "How Syria sank into all-out civil war", name the three powerful backers who have helped keep Assad's regime standing.
Russia, Iran and Lebanese Hezbolla fighters.
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What does universalists believe in?
All humans possess the same rights, they are timeless and changeless. These rights originate from somewhere outside of society, possibly from a deity or from our common humanity.
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What is acute malnutrition?
A kind of malnutrition, characterised by inappropriate weight in relation to a child's height.
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According to the "Famine and malnutrition stalks strife-torn ..." article, how many people have been driven from their homes?
750,000 people have been driven from their homes.
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What are chemical weapons?
Chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants.
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According to the "Q&A: Syria chemical weapons disarmament deal" article, what does the US-Russia agreement say?
Syria's chemical weapons programme was to be destroyed according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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What do relativists believe in?
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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How are children stunting and children wasting similar?
Children stunting, and children wasting are two kinds of malnutrition.
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According to the "Famine and malnutrition stalks..." article how much money did the WFP appeal for through August 2014?
$107 million
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Who is Bashar Al-Assad?
The last Syrian "president" before the uprising.
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According to the "Q&A" article, what would happen if Syria does not comply?
Use of military force, authorised by a second resolution.
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What are human rights?
A right believed to belong justifiably to every person.
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What is the difference between child stunting and child wasting?
Child stunting is characterised by a child short in height in relation to his weight, and child wasting is characterised by a child having an inappropriate weight in relation to his height.
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According to the "NUI Galway develops vitamin-rich..." article, how many children in developing countries go blind because of vitamin A deficiency? how many of them die?
500,000 children, with over half of them dying within the year.
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What are refugees?
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
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According to the "Syria's chemical weapons stockpile" article, describe the effects of 3 kinds of chemical weapons.
VX is the most potent; victim is not able to sustain breathing, glands and organs to stop working, vctim to not be able to sustain breathing. Sarin attacks the nervous system, it can cause death within 10 minutes of inhalation. Sulphur mustard burns exposed body parts, not lethal but may cause cancer and serious disfigurement.