Hart Human Rights Quiz

In 2014, 276 teenage girls were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram.This led to the social media campaign #BringBackOurGirls.How many of these kidnapped girls are still missing? 

South Sudan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates, i.e. the number of women that die during childbirth, in the world.Given that the maternal mortality rate for the United Kingdom is 9 per 100,000 births, what is South Sudan's? 

Timor Leste has the third highest malnutrition rate for children under the age of five.However, the country grows a plant which is drought-resistant and can be harvested quickly every 40 days, giving it great potential to help mitigate this problem.Which plant is it? 

The Nagorno-Karabakh region was carved out of Armenia and placed under Azerbaijani administration as part of the Soviet divide-and-conquer strategy in the Caucasus.Which Soviet leader did this?

Over 800,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh following vicious attacks by the Burmese Army.In the east, a similar situation which is unreported has caused thousands of people from Shan State, another ethnic minority, to flee their homes.Which neighbouring country does not formally recognise the Shan as refugees?

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel group that was created by Joseph Kony to overthrow the Ugandan government.During its reign of terror, it kidnapped over 10,000 children to use them as soldiers, and forced women to marry LRA members who are then subject to sexual slavery.When was it created?

In October, the United States lifted sanctions on Sudan that it had imposed 20 years ago citing an improvement in Human Rights in the country.This is in spite of the International Criminal Court having issued an arrest warrant for their President in 2009 for Human Rights violations. What is his name?