20 MCQ on Human Rights and Duties with answer

 1. The protection of Human Rights Act in India was enacted in the year

(A) 1993

(B) 1994

(C) 1995

(D) 1996

Answer: (A)

2. Which one of the following categories of Fundamental Rights incorporates ‘Abolition of Untouchability’?

(A) Right to Religion

(B) Right to Equality

(C) Right to Freedom

(D) Right against Exploitation

Answer: (B) 

3. Helsinki Declaration, 1964 is concerned with

(A) War prevention

(B) Human Experimentation

(C) Gender discrimination

(D) Child Abuse

Answer: (B)

4. Who introduced the concept of third generation Human Rights?

(A) Tullius Cesero

(B) Jermy Bentham

(C) John Finnis

(D) Karel Vasak

Answer: (D)

5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on

(A) December 1, 1948www.netugc.com

(B) December 10, 1948

(C) December 11, 1948

(D) December 31, 1948

Answer: (B)

6. Which one of the Schedules of the Constitution given below deals with recognised languages?

(A) Schedule 8

(B) Schedule 7

(C) Schedule 12

(D) Schedule 9

Answer: (A)

7. Which one of the following is not a UN Agency?

(A) UNICEF

(B) UNESCO

(C) WTO

(D) ILO

Answer: (C)

8. Which Article of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 defines the prisoners of War?

(A) Article 1

(B) Article 2

(C) Article 3

(D) Article 4

Answer: (D)

9. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, 2010 held at

(A) Paris

(B) Kampala

(C) The Hague

(D) Rio de Janeiro

Answer: (B)

10. Who coined the term ‘Genocide’?

(A) Raphael Lemkin

(B) Eleanor Roosevelt

(C) P Thornberry

(D) Jafferson

Answer: (A)

11. Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Refugees?

(A) They are outside their country

(B) Fear of persecution

(C) Absence of National protection

(D) Poverty as reason of being outside the country

Answer: (D)

12. Right to Education is guaranteed under Article

(A) 14

(B) 19

(C) 21-A

(D) 21

Answer: (C)

13. Fundamental Duties are contained in

(A) Part IV Article 51-A

(B) Part IV Article 51-B

(C) Part III Article 35

(D) Part III Article 17

Answer: (A)

14. Who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross?

(A) Henry Dunant

(B) F. Lieber

(C) Rousseau

(D) None of the above

Answer: (A)

15. The UN Sub-Commission on ‘The Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities’ wasestablished in 1947 bywww.netugc.com

(A) General Assembly

(B) Security Council

(C) Commission on Human Rights

(D) International Court of Justice

Answer: (C)

16. Who among the following propounded the modern principles of Natural Justice?

(A) Locke

(B) J.S. Mill

(C) A.V. Dicey

(D) John Rawals

Answer: (C)

17. Guidelines for arrest of persons by the police were given by the Supreme

Court in which of the following cases?

(A) Maneka Gandhi vs. Union of India

(B) Auto Sankar vs. State of Tamil Nadu

(C) Hussainara Khatoon vs. State of Bihar

(D) D. K. Basu vs. State of West Bengal

Answer: (D)

18. Which Amendment introduced the word ‘secular’ in the Preamble of Indian Constitution?

(A) 44th

(B) 42nd

(C) 93rd

(D) 16th

Answer: (B)

19. legal positivism, a school of thought which does not accept human rights as merely moral or just was propounded by

(A) Plato

(B) Aristotle

(C) Hegel

(D) Austin

Answer: (D)

20. ‘Laissez faire’ philosophy is an anti thesis of

(A) Interventionist State

(B) Repressive State

(C) Soft State

(D) Welfare State

Answer: (D)