Top 80+ Solved Human Rights and International Law MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which of the following is a collective right?
a. right to life and liberty
b. right to fair trial
c. self-determination
d. freedom of religion
Q. What is the legal nature of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
a. it is a un general assembly resolution.
b. it is a un security council resolution
c. it is part of the american constitution.
d. it is a multilateral treaty.
Q. Is the UDHR a binding legal instrument?
a. yes
b. no
c. yes, only on states that have agreed to be bound by it
d. none of the above
Q. Under what circumstances do human rights violations taking place outside the territoryof ECHR Member States fall within the remit of the ECHR?
a. where a member state exercises control
b. where a member state requests the echr to do so
c. never
d. where a member state exercises effective control
Q. What is the rationale for the exhaustion of local remedies in international human rights?
a. to restrict the volume of petitions to international tribunals
b. to build up judicial capacity of local courts
c. both (a) and (b)
d. either (a) or (b)
Q. Which of the following is not a non-derogable right as per Article 4 of the InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights?
a. rights to life
b. the freedoms of thought
c. prohibition on torture
d. right to fair trial
Q. Which of the following cases determined by the Human Rights Committee does not dealwith the protection of minority rights under Article 27 of the ICCPR?
a. the kitok case
b. the lovelace case
c. the sawhoyamaxa indigenous community case
d. the lubicon lake band case
Q. In which of the following cases the applicant, arrested for drug-trafficking in France, was in police custody severely ill-treated, including being beaten, tortured and raped. The national authorities finally held the police liable. As this process took a significant number of years, the applicant argued that his right to be free from torture had been violated as well as his right to a fair hearing.
a. selmouni v. france
b. a and ors v. france
c. trident v. france
d. none of the above
Q. In which of the following cases were the relationship between the ICJ and the SecurityCouncil, and their separation of powers, considered by the court?
a. pan am case
b. paquete habana case
c. corfu channel case
d. chorzow factory case
Q. International Bill of Human Rights includes:
a. universal declaration of human rights
b. international covenant on civil and political rights and international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights
c. both (a) and (b)
d. either (a) or (b)
Q. The content of the principle of respect for human rights in international law maybe expressed in which of the following propositions as expounded by G. Tunkin inTheory of International Law?
a. all states have a duty to respect thefundamental rights and freedoms of all persons within their territories.
b. stateshave a duty not to permit discrimination by reason of sex, race, religion orlanguage.
c. states have a duty to promote universal respect for human rightsand to co-operate with each other to achieve this objective.
d. all of the above.
Q. “Genocide” includes which of the following?
a. killing members of the group.
b. causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
c. deliberatelyinflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physicaldestruction in whole or in part.
d. all of the above.
Q. Which of thefollowing is not considered as a crime against humanity?
a. torture
b. rape,sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization
c. persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial,national, ethnic, cultural, religious groups
d. forcibly transferring children of onegroup to another group