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25 Cards in this Set
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ICC Creation date |
1998 |
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Convictions under ICC |
Charles Taylor - Liberia Germain Katanga - Congo 2014 ongoing - Omar Al Bashir |
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Brandt Reports date |
1980 and 1983 |
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US funding of the UN |
22% |
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Current IMF loans to Kenya |
$200m |
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Amount of Africa's largest oil producing nation Nigeria's population living on $2 a day |
90% |
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Deaths attributable to terrorism in 2014 |
33,000 |
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Aids deaths in 2015 |
1.1m |
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Evidence of terrorist nuclear material possession |
during 1993-2008, the International Atomic Energy Agency registered 15 different cases of unauthorised nuclear material possession |
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UN resolution calling for nuclear material regulation |
1540 |
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language used in resolution 1540 |
"appropriate and effective" measures |
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Amount of US and UK public that believe that terror is an actual threat |
US public 77% UK public 17% |
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Wood industry to Brazil |
Ranked no. 10 in pulp and paper production $5.5bn a year |
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Articles of UN declaration covering civil and political rights |
Articles 2-21 |
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Magna Carta creation date |
1215 |
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Economic rights in the UNDHR |
22 |
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Freedom of expression rights in UNDHR |
18 to 20 |
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Article of Declaration of Human Rights mentioning freedom to change religion |
Article 18 |
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UNDHR section on private property |
Article 17 |
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Arguments for Nuclear Weapons being a global threat |
Terrorists getting them - 1993-2008 15 counts of unauthorised ownership -unknown and unfriendly nations having them - Pakistan having nukes despite wide scale Taliban and Al Qaeda control -Imbalance of power where countries with gross human rights abuses have no chance of intervention or cooperation |
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Arguments for nuclear weapons not being a global threat |
-They produce stalemates and restore peace - Cold war was a period of relative peace -It can quell regional conflicts - Israel/Iran, India/Pakistan -the chance of terrorists actually obtaining nuclear weapons is very low |
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2009 Copenhagen conference positives |
-it was the first conference that really took into account the real balance of power in modern politics - the brokers included the BRICS nations -The major economies forum included the world's 17 most prosperous nations and mentioned for the first time these nations reducing their emissions and developing sustainable development aid for underdeveloped nations - $30bn a year until 2020 |
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2009 Copenhagen conference negatives |
-The commitments weren't binding - BRICS nations made sure of this -US reluctance - Obama couldn't promise anything he couldn't get through congress and therefore resisted making a clear decision on policy -the actual targets themselves were weak - there was a removal of the reduction of 1.5c figure and the removal of the reduction of emissions by 80% figure |
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To what extent is humanitarian intervention an abandoned project? - FOR |
-Unsuccessful - Iraq - emergence of ISIS, Sudan problems with peacekeeper ineffectiveness -unpopular - even in Iraq only 50% of the public actually believe the intervention was justified -the conditions of the 1990s are now gone - it was mostly small regional conflicts like Kosovo and, East Timor 2000 |
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To what extent is humanitarian intervention an abandoned project? - Against |
-success in small arenas, Kosovo and Ivory Coast were amazing successes -the need is still there when conventional diplomacy doesn't work against non-state actors -and it's not an abandoned project proven by current interventions - The US is currently engaged in 8 different war zones |
