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  • OPINION

    We cannot lose control of technology

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 19/01/2022

    » The advent of Covid-19 has accentuated digitalisation and its close linkage with automation, algorithms, and artificial intelligence ("the three A's"). The Asian region interfaces closely with this phenomenon, especially because it is the most populous continent. It is also a region with a large number of non-democracies and semi-democracies. This panorama invites care to prevent misuse of those three As.

  • 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

    Gateways for action on Myanmar crisis

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 11/01/2023

    » The coup in Myanmar in 2021 brought back to power a junta-based regime and compounded grave violations, adding fuel to a recurrent crisis. A constructive gateway for action in December 2022 was thus the adoption of the UN Security Council (SC) Resolution 2669, the first substantive resolution highlighting urgently needed measures on the issue.

  • OPINION

    A multi-track strategy for North Korea

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 01/09/2021

    » North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been a conundrum for the international community for over half a century. Cloistered and undemocratic, the power base keeps a tight rein over its population with heavy surveillance and pervasive constraints. The latest news that recently it restarted to activate its nuclear facility at Yongbyon is most disturbing, as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has already imposed sanctions on the country to end its nuclearisation. Is there any strategy to deal with the country in an engaging manner?

  • OPINION

    Covid-19 curbs must heed rights

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 26/05/2020

    » One of the key developments globally and in Thailand, in regard to measures taken to counter the spread of Covid-19, is the ascendancy of executive power and its implications for human rights.

  • OPINION

    Protecting migrants, refugees in our age of conflict

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 07/01/2020

    » There are about 270 million international migrants today who cross borders in search of new vistas. Many such as "expatriates" do well. However, many, particularly those who are pushed out of their homes, are caught in a trap of dislocation, dispossession and coercion, often due to armed conflicts, discrimination and violence. The number of forced migrants now stands at about 70 million people globally -- some 30 million who cross borders as "refugees" and some 40 million forced to move in their country of origin as "internally displaced persons".

  • OPINION

    Charter intricacies and electoral delicacies

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 28/07/2018

    » Thailand has witnessed 20 constitutions since 1932. The most recent, the 20th, came into effect last year, after an interim constitution, the 19th, which emerged as a result of a coup d'etat in 2014.

  • OPINION

    High stakes as regime considers rights

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 19/02/2018

    » A pre-Chinese New Year present from the government was Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's proclamation of the government's human rights agenda to complement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Thailand's "4.0" target to become a more developed society. Beyond the formalities, what are some of the stakes?

  • OPINION

    Time for action over North Korea

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 22/04/2014

    » Last week, for the first time, the UN Security Council held a special session on the situation of human rights in North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – DPRK). While the range of human rights abuses there are well-known to the international community, the Security Council took years before opting to discuss the issue. It was the voluminous findings of a UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights violations in North Korea, published recently, which propelled it to the top of the UN agenda.

  • OPINION

    Lessons of ‘Black May’ 1992 and the 2006 coup

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 23/05/2014

    » The month of May is at times an ominous month for Thailand. In 1991, the military staged a coup against a civilian government, arguing it was corrupt.

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