world organisations section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In April 2013, the state of Qatar offered to serve as the new permanent seat of the Organization starting in 2016.

Answer: (b)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December, 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration consists of 30 articles.

Answer: (a)

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995, under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948.

The organization deals with the regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants’ adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments.

Most of the issues that the WTO focuses on derive from previous trade negotiations, especially from the Uruguay Round.

Answer: (a)

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention deals with the child-specific needs and rights. It requires that states act in the best interests of the child.

Answer: (d)

The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are:

1. China,
2. France,
3. Russia (formerly the Soviet Union),
4. The United Kingdom, and
5. The United States.

These are the states in which the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. These countries represent the five great powers considered to be the victors of World War II.

Answer: (d)

The WTO agreements cover goods, services and intellectual property. These agreements are not static; they are renegotiated from time to time and new agreements can be added to the package. Many are now being negotiated under the Doha Development Agenda, launched by WTO trade ministers in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001.