Institutions to Enforce Human Rights

Q. What are the roles and responsibilities of the International Human Rights Commission?

1. Frame human rights laws for countries around the world to follow.
2. Monitor the implementation of human rights.
3. Investigate violations of human rights.
4. Punish countries that violate human rights.

Q. Which of these human rights commissions was set up by the United Nations?

1. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
2. National Human Rights Commission
3. International Human Rights Commission
4. State Human Rights Commission

Q. Which of these commissions were set up by India to monitor the implementation of human rights in the country?

1. State Human Rights Commission
2. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
3. International Human Rights Commission
4. International Declaration for Human Rights

Q. This organisation is a statutory public body that was constituted in 12 October, 1993. Its mandate is to protect and promote the human rights relating to equality, liberty, and dignity of the individual that are guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. Identify this institution from the ones given below?

1. National Commission for Backward Classes
2. National Commission for Women
3. National Commission for Minorities
4. National Human Rights Commission

Q. Articles of the Indian Constitution explicitly deals with Fundamental Rights.

1. 12 to 35
2. 14 to 36
3. 15 to 33

Q. Which article of the Indian Constitution ensures equality of citizens before the law?

1. Article 14
2. Article 25
3. Article 10
4. Article 7

Q. Both Article 14 of the Indian Constitution and Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights deal with the same right.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which part of the Constitution deals with the Fundamental Rights?

1. Part III
2. Part II
3. Part IV
4. Part V

Q. Which article of the Indian Constitution deals with the right to equality before the law?

1. Article 7
2. Article 21
3. Article 14
4. Article 16