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UN: LGBTs still face discrimination
Thana Boonlert, Published on 02/12/2019
» The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has reported that almost 50% of LGBT people in Thailand still face discrimination at home and school in the form of being expected to conform to heteronormative values.
Thailand wins UN nature gongs
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/11/2018
» Thai guardians of the environment bagged three major awards from the 2018 Asia Environmental Awards yesterday for their work combating trans-boundary wildlife poaching.
Venezuelan showdown moves to UN
AP and Bloomberg, Published on 26/01/2019
» Venezuela’s political showdown moves to the United Nations on Saturday, where a Security Council meeting will pit backers of President Nicolas Maduro against the United States and other supporters of self-declared interim leader Juan Guaido.
UN ups online scam fight
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 15/12/2025
» The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and its partners have launched a regional campaign to combat online scam operations.
UN slams Xinjiang rights abuses
Oped, John J Metzler, Published on 08/11/2022
» A high-level UN panel on Oct 26 slammed Beijing's ongoing and egregious human rights abuses in the western Xinjiang regions of the People's Republic. China's human rights violations have been committed through the use of "severe and undue restrictions" that are "characterised by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities".
UN panel taps Gistda exec
News, Published on 04/02/2026
» Thailand has assumed a significant leadership role in international space affairs after the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN Copuos) appointed Pakorn Apaphant, director of the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda), as chair of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee (STSC) for 2026.
Thailand rejects Cambodia’s claims at UN
Published on 25/02/2026
» The full text of Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow’s address to the high-level segment of the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Feb 24.
Myanmar won't admit UN envoy
Reuters, Published on 09/04/2021
» Myanmar’s junta on Friday refused to let a UN envoy visit, after she arrived in Bangkok in hopes of kick-starting diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in the country.
Corporate capture of UN summit
Oped, Sofia Monsalve, Published on 23/09/2021
» When I visited my parents in Bogota last month, I witnessed how people in their neighbourhood went up and down the streets begging for help to survive. Since the end of April, Colombia has experienced one of its biggest waves of social unrest in recent times -- and hunger is at the core of the protests. South Africa experienced similar turmoil in July.
UN advocates drug crimes downgrades
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 15/01/2022
» The United Nations has called on countries in Southeast Asia to close compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centres used to detain drug dependents, suspected drug users, victims of sexual exploitation and former sex workers.