"Kosovo" was a province of this country before its split:
Important Questions on Democratic Rights
For each of the three cases of life without rights, mention an example from India. These could include the following:
- Newspaper reports on custodial violence.
- Newspaper reports on force-feeding of prisoners who go on hunger strike.
- Ethnic massacre in any part of our country.
- Reports regarding the unequal treatment of women.
List the similarities and differences between the earlier case and the Indian example. It is not necessary that for each of these cases you must find an exact Indian parallel.
This is an international human rights organisation with headquarters in the UK. It was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for defending human dignity against torture. It seeks to mobilise public opinion to put pressure on governments of countries where abuse of human rights takes place.
Which organisation is being described in the passage given above?
This was a province of Yugoslavia having Albanians in majority. Milosevic, who was very hostile to the Albanians, won the elections and wanted the Serbs to dominate the country including the Albanians in this province.
Which province is being discussed in the passage above?
Rights are assertions of a person's dominance over other people, society, and the government. We all want to live joyfully, without fear, and without having our basic human rights violated. But there are some countries where rights are not allowed to be exercised by their citizens.
Which of the following statements accurately reflects the political system and freedoms in Saudi Arabia, as described in the passage?
An international human rights organization called Amnesty International gathered data on the conditions of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and claimed that torture that broke US law was being used against the detainees. These results were confirmed by a UN investigation that was independent.
What was the response of the US government to the calls for closing down the prison in Guantanamo Bay, as mentioned in the passage?
The US military secretly abducted 600 people from all over the world and imprisoned them in Guantánamo Bay, a region close to Cuba that is under American authority. Jamil El-Banna, Anas' father, was one of them. They were detained by the US army, who then questioned them before deciding whether to keep them there.
Why were the individuals imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, and not allowed to approach the courts in their own country or granted a trial before any magistrate in the US?
