UPSC Prelims 2018 · Question 14 of 99

UPSC Prelims 2018 question on Rule of Law Index

Rule of Law Index' is released by which of the following?

  1. Amnesty International
  2. International Court of Justice
  3. The Office of UN Commissioner for Human Rights
  4. World Justice Project
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Answer: D. World Justice Project

Analysis

The Rule of Law Index is released by the World Justice Project, so the answer is (d).

The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index measures how the rule of law is experienced and perceived by the general public across the globe, and is the leading source of original, independent data on the rule of law.

The closest distractors are (a) and (c), both human rights bodies. Amnesty International is an advocacy organisation and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is a UN human rights body, but neither publishes this index. Option (b) is weakest, since the International Court of Justice is a judicial organ that settles disputes between States and publishes no index at all.

Source

The Hindu opinion piece referencing the index.

How to crack it

Index questions are pure report to publisher recall, and the reliable move is to keep a running two column list of index against issuing body as you read the paper, because UPSC asks two or three of these every year. When you do not know it, eliminate on institutional character first: courts and treaty bodies rarely publish ranked indices, which removes the ICJ and OHCHR here and leaves a straight choice between two.

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