NY Regents 10.10: Human Rights Violations

This was Nuremberg, a city in southern Germany — sitting precisely between the Rhine River to the west and the Danube to the south, in the dense interior of Central Europe. In 1945 and 1946, the…

Tokyo, the capital of Japan — a city on Honshu, the largest island of the Japanese archipelago curving along Asia's Pacific edge — was the site of the International Military Tribunal for the Far…

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, sits on the Highveld plateau in the far south of the African continent, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet around the Cape of Good Hope…

This event took place in Paris, France — the French capital straddling the Seine River, roughly midway between the English Channel coast to the northwest and the Alps to the southeast. On December 9…

This is Santiago, the capital of Chile — a country famously shaped like a ribbon, pressed between the Andes mountain range to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, stretching far into the…

This is Santiago, the capital of Chile — a city pressed between the Andes Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, in the long, narrow country that runs down South America's…

New Delhi, India's capital on the vast Gangetic Plain — sitting just south of the Himalayas and at the heart of the South Asian subcontinent — is exactly where Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared…

This is the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina — a historic square sitting at the edge of the Río de la Plata estuary, where the great rivers draining South America's interior pour into the…

This is Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China — the immense paved plaza at the symbolic centre of the North China Plain, where the ancient imperial capital sits between the Taihang Mountains to the west…

This is Kigali, the capital of Rwanda — a densely hilled, landlocked country sitting on the high plateau between the Congo basin and the East African Rift Valley, almost exactly at the continent's…

Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, sits on the high interior plateau on the Highveld plateau of the northern interior, about 500 kilometres from the nearest coast. On May 10, 1994…

This atrocity unfolded in Srebrenica, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina — tucked into the forested ridges of the Dinaric Alps in the western Balkans, roughly midway between the Adriatic coast and the…

This was Rome, the capital of Italy — sitting on the Tiber River in the middle of the Italian Peninsula, exactly the boot-shaped landmass stretching south into the Mediterranean that the title clue…

The city is The Hague, in the Netherlands — sitting in the flat Rhine-Maas delta where northwestern Europe meets the North Sea, exactly the coastal lowland the title clue described. On July 1, 2002…

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, sits on the Dnieper River in the heart of Eastern Europe — a vast, flat country on the North European Plain, wedged between the Carpathian Mountains to the west and…

Re'im is a small community in southern Israel, sitting on the flat semi-arid plain between the Mediterranean coast to the west and the Negev desert stretching south toward the Sinai Peninsula — the…