Why Have Scholars Recently Changed Their Opinion on Whether Global

question 43

Multiple Choice

Why have scholars recently changed their opinion on whether global human rights violations have increased or decreased over the past 35 years?

• A)The United Nations has placed more emphasis on tracking human rights violations.
• B)Few scholars were looking into human rights issues earlier than 2000.
• C)Reliable statistics have only recently become available for the 1980s.
• D)The definition for what counts as a human rights violation has expanded over time.

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