• OPINION

  Gender diversity is good for business

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 11/03/2024

  » A timely issue raised by a recent forum of key businesses, political leaders and civil society was the potential for more inclusion of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people in the workplace. This is complementary to the other critically important issue of the day: the role of women in business and employment.

• OPINION

  Key portals to Global Digital Compact

  Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 09/02/2024

  » This year will witness the formulation and adoption of the UN-backed Global Digital Compact if all goes as planned. It will provide a policy framework for digital relations worldwide, although not yet equivalent to a binding treaty. What, then, are the stakes, the key portals to the digital future?

• OPINION

  Rights, freedoms hang in balance

  Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 30/12/2023

  » The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) capped 2023 by celebrating its 75th birthday just before the year's end. As the seminal UN document on human rights, it is closely linked with the four freedoms: namely, freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Where are we in that long march towards their realisation?

• OPINION

  Govt kindles same-sex marriage hopes

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 23/11/2023

  » The top of the executive branch has given a welcome signal that it will fast-track in parliament a law to recognise same-sex marriage in Thailand.

• OPINION

  An Israel-Palestine conflict explainer

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 23/10/2023

  » The armed attacks by militants from the Gaza Strip, an area controlled primarily by the Hamas group, into southern Israel in early October and the subsequent armed responses from Israel deserve to be put in a historical and political context. Gaza is one of the two parts of Palestinian territory, the other part being the West Bank, both of which are part of an age-old conflict which has not been resolved but regrettably has been left to fester.

• OPINION

  Having another go at a UNHRC seat

  Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 03/08/2023

  » Thailand is planning to be a candidate in the next round of elections for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), with voting on the matter due at the UN General Assembly in 2024 for a seat in 2025-2027. What might be the reasonable expectations for this and what might be an appropriate strategy for the nation to be sufficiently self-prepared?

• OPINION

  Litigation embroiling Thai politics

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 17/07/2023

  » Thailand is faced with key cases before the judiciary and state agencies which shape not only the fate of litigants but also the political and social space surrounding them.

• OPINION

  Time travelling with human rights

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 03/07/2023

  » If humanity had to travel with human rights (past, present and future), what might be pivotal dates interplaying with our destiny? 1993, 2005, 2023 and 2033 might well be candidates for testing our recent chronology.

• OPINION

  Towards a global summit of the future?

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 19/06/2023

  » If international plans are on course, there will be a global Summit of the Future (SOF) in 2024 at the UN General Assembly. Given that 2023 is already witnessing various global activities for the 30-year milestone of the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, as well as a summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), what could be the value-added of the SOF? And perhaps the value-subtracted?

• OPINION

  Overcoming statelessness in Thailand

  News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 05/06/2023

  » There are about 500,000 stateless people in Thailand, of whom over 100,000 are children. Recently, various national agencies, supported by UNHCR and Unicef, hosted a national consultation on statelessness. It was a timely opportunity to identify preferred directions.

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