Documents asserting individual rights, such the Magna Carta

Related MCQs

• In Britain key developments include the Magna Carta of............., the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 and the Bill of Rights of 1689.
• The……………., commonly referred to as the international Magna Carta, extended the revolution in international law ushered in by the United Nations Charter – namely, that how a government treats its own citizens is now a matter of legitimate international concern, and not simply a domestic issue.
• British Magna Carta was in the year………………
• The concept of human rights has undergone a revolutionary change since the Magna Charta of .............. to the rights contained in the Unites Nation Convention.
• The …………….Constitution and Bill of Rights (1791) are the written precursors to many of today’s human rights documents.
• The term human rights probably came into use sometime between Paine's The Rights of Man and ................ 1831 writings in The Liberator, in which he stated that he was trying to enlist his readers in "the great cause of human rights".
• The United Nations Human Rights Council, created at the ............... World Summit to replace the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, has a mandate to investigate violations of human rights.
• In ................, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights was replaced with the United Nations Human Rights Council for the enforcement of international human rights law.
• Rights for all members of the human family were first articulated in ………………. in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
• Rights for all members of the human family were first articulated in 1948 in the …………….Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).