Words and Grammar. aMark the meaning in which the following words are used in the text, with a tick:

a Mark the meaning in which the following words are used in the text, with a tick:

b Explain the meaning of the following in English:

• to blur responsibility

• traditional supremacy of society over an individual

• to take human rights off the international agenda

• much of the non-Western world

• adherence to this list should become the absolute prerequisite of behaviour required for membership

• victims of abuse should be heard worldwide

с Write down if to is a preposition or a particle, used with infinitives, and translate the sentences into Russian:

1 The problem is that the idea of the right to development won't work.............................................................

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2 It serves to blur responsibility for the economic deprivation of nations.........................................................

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3 The dictators used the idea of supremacy over an individual to destroy local communities...........................

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4 But what to do then about the continued mass violation of human rights in the non-Western world?..........

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5 A better approach would be to return to the original meaning of human rights..............................................

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d Write down a few short sentences with the following word combinations on the basis of the text:

to rob their own populations...............................................................

never-ending tribal wars zones...........................................................

it is no wonder that..............................................................................

the idea becomes meaningless............................................................

to claim smth as universal human rights.............................................

e Write out all the words and word combinations associated with human rights, from the text.

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