Q 01/05

Article 24 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists rest, leisure and which workplace benefit as a right?

A) A pension

B) Paid holidays

C) Free healthcare

D) Profit sharing

Answer · why

B) Paid holidays

Paid holidays are a human right under Article 24, which demands 'reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay'. Article 26 of...

Q 02/05

Roughly how many languages carry the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from Abkhaz to Zulu?

A) Around 50

B) Around 150

C) Around 300

D) More than 500

Answer · why

D) More than 500

More than 500 languages carry it — 577 at the UN's last count — making the declaration the most translated document in the world.

Q 03/05

Which country is the only UN member that has never ratified the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child?

A) Ethiopia

B) North Korea

C) United States

D) Solomon Islands

Answer · why

C) United States

The United States signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1995 but never ratified it, leaving it alone among UN members; the treaty define...

Q 04/05

Which country was the last on Earth to abolish slavery, in 1981, and allowed slaveholders to be prosecuted only in 2007?

A) Mauritania

B) Sierra Leone

C) Burkina Faso

D) Madagascar

Answer · why

A) Mauritania

Mauritania abolished slavery by decree in 1981, yet the 2018 Global Slavery Index still estimated 90,000 people enslaved there, about two per cent of ...

Q 05/05

When Britain abolished slavery across most of its empire in 1833, who received the £20 million compensation?

A) The enslaved people

B) The owners

C) Colonial governors

D) The Royal Navy

Answer · why

B) The owners

The owners of enslaved people got the money, not the freed: the £20 million equalled 40 per cent of the Treasury's annual income, and the debt raised ...