Question 1

What is the purpose of the Trusteeship Council?

Options :

A : To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.

B : To take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace.

C : To provide administrative support to the other UN organs.

D : To monitor conditions in ‘trust territories’ administered by UN member states.

E : To adjudicate legal disputes between states willing to submit disputes to their jurisdiction.

Answer: D

Question 2

The rule of law model consists of five primary principles of the rule of law that can be used to guide decision-making. Select the correct options from the options below.

Options :

A : Equality

B : Inconsistency

C : Transparency

D : Proportionality

Answer: A,C,D

Question 3

Borrowing from IHL, jus in bello economico relates to the just implementation of economic sanctions, including a demonstration of the following except?

Options :

A : Economic sanctions are necessary to achieve an explicit and lawful objective

B : That sanctions are designed in ways that enable the imposing party to differentiate between those responsible for the offensive behavior and civilians

C : That sanctions are implemented within the lawful jurisdictions on each respective territory

D : That the severity of sanctions are proportional to that objective

E : None of the above

Answer: C

Question 4

Which of the following statements in regards to countermeasures is/are true?

Options :

A : Under the law of state responsibility, it is possible for States to unilaterally maintain lawful economic/financial sanctions that are applied in response to an allegedly unlawful act of the target State, even if the sanctions are themselves prima facie illegal, if the sanctions meet the criteria for lawful countermeasures.

B : The subject of the lawfulness of sanctions applied by the EU specifically in the context of counter-proliferation oriented sanctions targeting Iran, has been comprehensively examined by Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont

C : The criteria for lawful countermeasures are based on a state by state basis.

D : The criteria for lawful application of countermeasures, both procedural and substantive, can be found in the ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility.

E : The application of sanctions as countermeasures, if unlawfully applied, can result in the liability of the sanctioning State and additionally give rise to the potential for the target State to itself apply lawful countermeasures

Answer: A,B,D

Question 5

The following statements in relation to humanitarian indicators are accurate with the exception of?

Options :

A : Much of the data used in humanitarian assessments is in the form of indicators.

B : Humanitarian indicators may take the form of measures of PROCESS—such as the number of children treated for malnutrition—or measures of OUTCOME

C : Humanitarian indicators measure people’s conditions of life.

D : The inbdicators include both straightforward measures (such as the number of disease cases reported to a Ministry of Health in a given month) and also include sophisticated measures like the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Index.

E : Humanitarian indicators ' main goal is to determine whether there are changes in economic structure of any individual nation.

Answer: A