1. When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
2. Who elects members of the Human Rights Council?
3. Which UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was killed in a terrorist attack?
4. What is the first human rights document adopted by the United Nations?
5. What number of children is currently forced into prostitution every year?
6. How many people currently live on less than 1 U.S. dollar per day?
7. Which document is considered to be the first to establish the principles of human rights?
8. How many languages has the Declaration of Human Rights been translated into?
9. Which institution sets out international human rights standards?
10. In the Human Rights Council, what are the “special procedures”?
11. Who was the first High Commissioner for Human Rights?
12. What series of conventions cover humanitarian questions in times of war?
ANSWERS
1. 10 December 1948
2. The General Assembly
3. Sergio Vieira de Mello
4. One million
5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6. 1.3 billion
7. The declaration of human and citizen rights, issued during the French revolution.
8. Over 350
9. The United Nations
10. Experts and working groups that investigate Human rights violations at the national level and report them to the Human Rights Council
11. José Ayala Lasso
12. The Geneva Conventions
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