Speaking legal English. Борисова Л.А. - 59 стр.

7. Can we speak about human rights violations nowadays, that is, in the
   XXI century?
8. What rights are most often violated or infringed nowadays?
9. What countries seriously face this problem?
10. What organizations specialize in protecting human rights?
11. Do you think the international organizations work effectively or as
   usual they rather talk about problems than try to solve them?
12. What international documents on human rights have been signed?
13. And what court can you take your case to if some of your rights are
   violated?
14. Can we say that humanity has achieved total equality?
15. Do you think women must have equal rights with men?
16. What is the most important right that women have gained, in your
   opinion?
17. In what social spheres can we see discrimination against women?
18. What is your attitude to feminism?
19. In what countries are women’s rights most often violated?
20. Why is there such a situation in these countries?
21. Will women in the East be able to achieve equality with men?
22. Apart from discrimination against women what other types of
   discrimination exist at present?
23. Can the problem of discrimination be solved or will it always exist?
24. Are the notions «discrimination» and «genocide» connected?
25. What peoples faced the problem of genocide?
26. What conflicts in today’s world are in some way connected with
   violating or infringing human rights or the rights of the whole nation?
27. Quite often violent methods are used to claim the rights. For example,
   the activity of IRA in Northern Ireland or of Basque ETA in Spain can
   only be called terrorist activity. Is this the only way to solve the
   problem?
28. When the international community thinks that human rights are
   infringed in a particular country do you think it has the right to
   interfere into the process of solving the problem?
29. What is your personal opinion about the US interference into the
   conflicts in the Balkans or in Iraq?
30. What is your attitude to trials of former leaders of some countries, for
   example, Yugoslavia and Iraq? Are they really guilty of the crimes
   they are charged with or are these trumped-up cases?
31. Do you think communist regime in former USSR or Franco
   dictatorship in Spain can be considered examples of human rights
   violations?
32. Do people really enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of opinion and
   expression?
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