Human Rights Act Law 100 MCQ With Free Exam SET:-1

Q91. The following Committee cannot hear individual complaints of human rights violations:

(A) Committee that monitors International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
(B) Committee that monitors human rights bodies
(C) Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
(D) Committee on Torture

Answer: Committee that monitors human rights bodies

Q92. Which of the following is not a principle aim of the UN ?

(A) To promote international law
(B) To facilitate co-operation among States
(C) To ensure world peace
(D) To ensure economic development for minorities

Answer: To ensure economic development for minorities

Q93. The Gandhian idea of individual rights was characterized within the framework of

(A) Human interdependence
(B) European liberal tradition
(C) Socialist tradition
(D) Vedic tradition

Answer: Human interdependence

Q94. 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

Answer: Both A and B

Q95. The Protection of Human Rights Act came into force on:

(A) 10th July, 1993
(B) 29th September, 1993
(C) 12nd September, 1993
(D) 10th October, 1993

Answer: 29th September, 1993

Q96. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was replaced with the United Nations Human Rights Council for the enforcement of international human rights law in the year:

(A) 2000
(B) 2001
(C) 2006
(D) 1998

Answer: 2006

Q97. The content of the principle of respect for human rights in international law may be expressed in which of the following propositions as expounded by G. Tunkin in Theory of International Law ?

(A) All States have a duty to respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all persons within their territories
(B) States have a duty not to permit discrimination by reason of sex, race, religion or language
(C) States have a duty to promote universal respect for human rights and to co-operate with each other to achieve this objective
(D) All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Q98. In which case Supreme Court held that Parliament has no power to amend the Fundamental Rights ?

(A) Golak Nath Case
(B) Sajjan Singh Case
(C) Shankari Prasad Case
(D) None of these

Answer: Golak Nath Case

Q99. Apartheid’ term came to be linked with a practice of discrimination in which of the following countries ?

(A) South Africa
(B) South America
(C) Tanzania
(D) Mozambique

Answer: South Africa

Q100. When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) made ?

(A) 10th December 1948
(B) 8th August 1956
(C) 20th June 1950
(D) 10th November 1942

Answer: 10th December 1948