J3SN-US649 SOUTHCOM Human Rights Awareness (JKO)
You are off duty at a popular local establishment in a relatively prosperous and secure neighborhood, but notice several things that bother you. First, this is the only building on the block with bars on the windows. Second, you notice that female staff are being transported to and from work by managers who appear to be monitoring them closely. Third, these women rarely converse with customers and seem nervous, looking around for their managers whenever interacting with customers. You get the strong impression they are being employed under coercive circumstances. WhT should you do?
Immediately leave the establishment. Record your observations and report them to your chain of command
Some of the positive advances on human rights military forces in the AOR have achieved include:
Military forces have established human rights training, policies and offices, and have increased transparency with civil society
In addition to being a matter of U.S. and international law, respect for human rights also is a matter of:
Military professionalism
The U.S. law commonly referred to as the Leahy Law: (Select all that apply)
Prohibits DoD funds from being used for any training, equipment, or other assistance to foreign military or security force unit if there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights with impunity
Human rights include protections against:
All answers are correct
What are the 5 R's of Human Rights?
All answers are correct
Which of the following is true of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
All answers are correct
The responsibility to conduct human rights training, promote respect for human rights, and/or integrate human rights concerns is embedded in which US military doctrine:
All answers are correct.
For U.S. DOD personnel, standards of respect for Human Rights and Law of War (also known as Law of Armed Conflict, or LOAC, and International Humanitarian Law, or IHL) are codified in:
All are correct
Why must U.S. government officials and military continuously train on human rights?
All of the answers are correct.
What are human rights?
Freedoms, immunities, and benefits that are deemed universal, inherent, and inalienable possessions of all humankind.
You have just attended a conference in a city known for rising crime rates and intensifying public anger. You are on your way to the airport in a secured vehicle. The vehicle stops; a crowd has gathered in the middle of the street as local security forces attack a street youth they have been pursuing. The onlookers cheer as the officers handcuff and begin beating the defenseless suspect, and some in the crowd even join in, kicking and throwing objects. What should you do?
Tell the driver to turn around. Intervene with moral dissonance if necessary to prevent grievous harm; otherwise disengage, snap a photo or take notes, and report the incident
The key difference between human smuggling and human trafficking is:
Trafficking necessarily involves force, coercion, fraud, or deception, whereas smuggling is a commercial transaction between two willing parties
SOUTHCOM Regulation 1-20 outlines the responsibilities of SOUTHCOM, component and Joint Task Forces personnel on human rights.
True
A partner nation military unit that had previously received DoD funding was found to have committed a gross violation of human rights (GVHR) that was reported to SOUTHCOM. The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, has determined that the partner nation government has taken "all necessary corrective steps" to correct the GVHR. Can this unit once again receive DoD funding under the DoD Leahy Law?
Yes, because the DoD Leahy Law authorizes the Secretary of Defense to resume funding to a unit of a foreign military or security force that would normally be prohibited from receiving such funding if, after consulting with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense determines that the government of the country has taken "all necessary corrective steps" to remediate the GVHR
