Chapter 1 GEOGRAPHY: AN EXPLORATION OF CONNECTIONS

NGOs Play Larger Role in World Affairs

After watching the NGOs Play Larger Role in World Affairs video, consider the questions below. Then "submit" your response.

1. Reports from Human Rights Watch are used to

Set foreign policy of the U.S. government

Pressure or shame governments into improving their human rights records

Plan boycotts of countries doing business in countries cited in the reports

Set policies for corporations

2. Human Rights Watch works with partners in how many countries?

3. The biggest issue in the United States for Human Rights Watch comes from

Racial discrimination

Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people

Efforts to fight terrorism

Political campaigns

4. The Center for International Private Enterprise believes

Economic reforms are more important than political reforms

Economic reforms and political reforms are two sides of the same coin

Political reforms will inevitably lead to economic reforms

Economic reforms will inevitably lead to political reforms