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Speak Up, Stop Discrimination, Human Rights Day 2010

10 December 2010

Test your knowledge…

Take this quiz to test your knowledge and to celebrate the human rights defenders who have fought for the rights of others.

Recognize how YOU can become a human rights defender and act to end discrimination.

1) Before being arrested in 1962 in South Africa for his fight against apartheid, Nelson Mandela became the leader of the:

A) Lord’s Resistance Army
B) African National Congress
C) US Senate
D) South African military

2) Led by Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American Farmers Association participated in the __________ demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage?

A) Delano grape strike
B) Montgomery bus boycott
C) Professional Football Player’s Strike
D) New York City transit strike

3) Gandhi’s method of resistance during the Indian independence movement involved:

A) Total non-violence
B) Mass civil disobedience
C) Peace
D) All of the above

4) Rosa Parks is best known for:

A) Drinking out of “White Only” drinking fountains
B) Her work towards the abolishment of slavery
C) Refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus
D) Being the inspiration for an Outkast song

5) Martin Luther King Jr. is the youngest person to receive the ____________ for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent tactics.

A) Civil Rights Award
B) Nobel Peace Prize
C) Gandhi Peace Award
D) Pulitzer Prize

6) During her time at the United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the Commission that drafted and approved what famous document?

A) Declaration of Independence
B) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
C) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
D) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

7) Desmond Tutu has fought against:

A) Apartheid
B) Racism
C) Homophobia
D) All of the above

8) Why was Raul Hernandez imprisoned for more than two years?

A) For his fight for indigenous rights
B) His religion
C) The alleged murder of Alejandro Feliciano Garcia
D) Violent protesting and rioting

9) Human rights activist Shirin Ebadi was the first woman in Iran:

A) To graduate from law school
B) To receive a Nobel Peace Prize
C) To serve as a judge
D) Both B and C

10) The possibility of an anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda that would sentence some homosexuals to life in prison or death, spurred this human rights activist to speak up:

A) Val Kalende
B) Graça Machel
C) Angelina Jolie
D) Wangari Maathai

11) Juan Carlos Gonzalez Levia suffers from what disability, yet still continues in his fight for the rights of people with disabilities and other human rights violations?

A) Blindness
B) Paralysis
C) Asperger Syndrome
D) Learning disabilities

12) As a child, Nkosi Johnson made a powerful impact on public perceptions of the _____ pandemic.

A) Flu
B) Malaria
C) Leprosy
D) HIV/AIDS

13) Patricia Troncoso maintained a 112-day hunger strike, demanding what?

A) Rights of prisoners and detainees
B) Indigenous rights
C) Women’s rights
D) A and B