Test Bank Human Rights and Global Activism Ch10

Chapter 10 Test Bank Questions

Long Answer

1. Explain the importance of the Platform for Action adopted during the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 for women’s rights globally. (Answer on pp. 323-324)

2. Who is the most vulnerable for human trafficking? (Answer on pp. 303-305)

3. What factor(s) influence the rise of female genital cosmetic surgeries in the United States? Why do the American Congress of Obstetricians oppose these operations? (Answer on pp. 306-307)

4. What are the long-term health and psychological consequences of traditional female genital cutting (fgc)? Why do anti-fgc activists oppose the medicalization of fgc? (Answer on p. 310)

5. Why has the recognition of human rights for the LGBT communities gained support in the last 15 years globally? (Answer on pp. 313-315)

6. Why is the recognition of human rights for the LGBT communities gaining support globally? (Answer on pp. 313-315)

7. What is CEDAW? Why do critics claim that CEDAW has serious weaknesses that fail to address controversial issues worldwide? (Answer on pp. 320-321)

8. Discuss why human trafficking represents a global problem whose dynamics differ from region to region. (Answer on pp. 300-301)

9. Why do some feminists such as Chandra Mohanty and Lisa Wade disagree with the traditional Western anti-fgc discourse? (Answer on p. 312)

10. What are the various forms of human trafficking? (Answer on pp. 299-300)

Short Answer

1. What is the socioeconomic connection between water and gender? (Answer on pp. 295-296)

2. Why hasn’t the United States ratified CEDAW? (Answer on p. 321)

3. How has Ai-jen Poo mobilized domestic workers to demand social and economic justice in the United States? (Answer on p. 326)

4. Explain the significance of Tawakkol Karman for struggle for democracy and women’s rights in Yemen? (Answer on p. 322)

5. What role does neoliberalism play in the development of modern human trafficking globally? (Answer on p. 305)

6. What historical and cultural factor(s) created the phenomena of traditional female genital cutting? What primary reasons do women provide for supporting it? (Answer on pp. 307-310)

7. How did Leymah Gbowee promote peace, democracy, and human rights in war-torn Liberia? (Answer on p. 318)

8. Why are the human rights abuses in the United States not only historical in nature but ongoing? (Answer on pp. 315-316)

9. What specific actions for promoting women’s rights and gender equality have some governments taken after ratifying CEDAW? (Answer on p. 320)

10. What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? (Answer on p. 316)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the essay “Under Western Eyes”? (B is correct. Answer on p. 299)

a. Anibal Quijano

b. Chandra Mohanty

c. Meredith Flowe

d. Craig Anthony Arnold

e. Richard Estes

2. When did the United Nations General Assembly recognize the human right to water and sanitation? (D is correct. Answer on p. 296)

a. 1999

b. 2012

c. 2000

d. 2010

e. 2007

3. In which of the following nations is Cochabamba located? (C is correct. Answer on p. 293)

a. Ecuador

b. Argentina

c. Bolivia

d. Peru

e. Chile

4. During which one of the following decades did Britain privatized water? (E is correct. Answer on p. 296)

a. 2000s

b. 1980s

c. 1960s

d. 1970s

e. 1990s

5. Which one of the following states is where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers located? (A is correct. Answer on p. 303)

a. Florida

b. North Carolina

c. Georgia

d. Virginia

e. Alabama

6. How many females worldwide are estimated to be affected by traditional female genital cutting practices? (D is correct. Answer on p. 307)

a. 175 million

b. 126 million

c. 210 million

d. 200 million

e. 150 million

7. Which one of the following nations was the birthplace of Bogaletch Gebre? (B is correct. Answer on p. 307)

a. Somalia

b. Ethiopia

c. Mozambique

d. Egypt

e. Kenya

8. When was the United Nations founded? (E is correct. Answer on p. 316)

a. 1948

b. 1946

c. 1944

d. 1949

e. 1945

9. Who is the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace? (C is correct. Answer on p. 322)

a. Benazir Bhutto

b. Linda Sarsour

c. Tawakkol Karman

d. Malala Yousafzai

e. Amani al Khatahtbeh

10. Which city hosted the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women? (A is correct. Answer on p. 323)

a. Beijing

b. Tianjin

c. Shanghai

d. Seoul

e. Hong Kong

11. According to the U.N. Girls’ Education Initiative in 2012, how many children globally never attend school? (C is correct. Answer on p. 325)

a. 100 million

b. 83 million

c. 67 million

d. 72 million

e. 60 million

12. Who made this statement: “Are women human?” (E is correct. Answer on p. 327)

a. Hilary Clinton

b. Eleanor Roosevelt

c. Gertrude Mongella

d. Rosa Briceno

e. Catharine MacKinnon

13. Which one of the following issues is not addressed in CEDAW? (B is correct. Answer on p. 321)

a. Discrimination

b. Abortion

c. Political freedom

d. Violence against women

e. Economic freedom

14. When was the first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights enacted in the U.S.? (D is correct. Answer on p. 326)

a. 2003

b. 2008

c. 2001

d. 2010

e. 2012

15. Among the 148 countries studied within the U.N. Development Programme for gender equality in 2013, where is Yemen ranked? (A is correct. Answer on p. 322)

a. 148th

b. 139th

c. 146th

d. 140th

e. 144th

16. Which one of the following African countries was the first one to elect a female president? (C is correct. Answer on p. 318)

a. Sierra Leone

b. Nigeria

c. Liberia

d. The Cameroons

e. Ghana

17. Which one of the following nations is where U.S. evangelical Christian groups promote anti-LGBT laws? (E is correct. Answer on p. 314)

a. South Africa

b. Trinidad and Tobago

c. Costa Rica

d. Bulgaria

e. Russia

18. Which one of the following countries is where Leslye Obiora originally from? (B is correct. Answer on p. 312)

a. Mali

b. Nigeria

c. Gabon

d. Central African Republic

e. Uganda

19. Which one of the following nations is where boys are more likely to be trafficked for sexual exploitation than girls? (D is correct. Answer on p. 305)

a. Vietnam

b. Thailand

c. Pakistan

d. Sri Lanka

e. The Philippines

20. What percentage of Native Americans in the U.S. do not have access to clean water and/or sanitation? (A is correct. Answer on p. 296)

a. 13

b. 18

c. 12

d. 10

e. 7

21. In which African nation does activist Doussou Konate campaign to publicize information regarding the detrimental effects of fgc (female genital cutting)? (C is correct. Answer on p. 311)

a. Burkina Faso

b. Madagascar

c. Senegal

d. Benin

e. Guinea

22. Which one of the following countries permits parents of intersex children to mark their birth certificates with an X instead of identifying the sex of their child as female or male? (E is correct. Answer on p. 315)

a. United Kingdom

b. Poland

c. Sweden

d. Switzerland

e. Germany

23. Who chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948? (B is correct. Answer on p. 317)

a. Jane Addams

b. Eleanor Roosevelt

c. Alice Paul

d. Margaret Sanger

e. Mary McLeod Bethune

24. Which one of the following nations lets trans and intersex people mark “gender-neutral” in the gender category on their passports or national identity cards? (D is correct. Answer on p. 314)

a. Ukraine

b. Hungary

c. Italy

d. New Zealand

e. Spain

25. Who introduced Malala Yousafzai at the U.N. in 2013 and added that by targeting Malala, “extremists showed what they fear most: a girl with a book?” (A is correct. Answer on p. 325)

a. Ban Ki-moon

b. Kofi Annan

c. Samantha Power

d. Boutros Boutros-Ghali

e. Susan Rice

True or False Questions

1. Men from Cambodia is trafficked and sold to Thai fishing captains. (True. Answer on p. 305}

2. In the Americas, adults make up two-thirds of the identified victims of human trafficking. (True. Answer on p. 301)

3. According to the United Nations Water report in 2013, only 710 million people have access to clean water and 1.2 billion lack access to sufficient sanitation. (False. Answer on pp. 296-297)

4. In the late 1990s, impoverished Bolivia was forced by the World Bank to privatize its water, and Cochabamba was forced to put its water system up for public sale. (True. Answer on pp. 293-294)

5. Many Westerners view women and men in the Global South as an empowered and diverse populations. (False. Answer on pp. 297-298)

6. Migrant laborers in the United States are the least vulnerable to human trafficking. (False. Answer on p. 303)

7. Male victims of trafficking are fewer than their female counterparts, but their numbers are currently growing. (True. Answer on p. 305)

8. Liberia, Kenya, and Burkina Faso have witnessed declines of 30 percent or more in fgc in recent years. (True. Answer on p. 309)

9. The Senegalese advocacy group Tostan began its work promoting traditional female genital cutting in 1991. (False. Answer on p. 311)

10. The United States maintains the largest reported incarcerated population in the world. (True. Answer on p. 316)