Key Terms

• Human rights


  Basic rights entitled to all people as human beings
• Human rights norms


  Cultural ways of living foundational to human rights
• Civil society groups


  NGOs promoting democracy and human rights globally
• Treaty


  Formally concluded agreement between countries
• Infant mortality rate


  Percentage of children dying before age one in a specific area
• Intervention


  Use of military force to end human rights violations
• Humanitarian intervention


  Military force use to protect human rights and humanitarian goals
• United Nations


  Organization promoting international peace and security
• Geopolitics


  Global political power balance and international relations
• Forced labour


  Work done under threat, including children and exploited individuals
• Maternal Mortality Rate


  Number of women dying per 100,000 births
• Capital punishment


  Punishment by death
• Gender inequality


  Empowerment of one gender to the detriment of the other
• Millennium Development Goals


  International development goals to achieve by 2015
• Reproductive health


  Health of reproductive organs in all individuals
• Global Governance


  International institutions governing the global economy
• NGOs


  Non-governmental organizations
• TNCs


  Transnational companies operating in multiple countries