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    Reconfiguring Thailand's constitution

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 18/01/2024

    » A key debate this year will be the question of constitutional reform. The current constitution -- the 20th -- is the product of a coup d'etat.

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    Righting the wrongs of development

    News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 27/03/2023

    » A key issue with which the world community has had to grapple since the end of the Second World War is that of "development", especially from the angle of national and international measures to ensure responsiveness to the rights and needs of the peoples of the land, without discrimination and violence, and to overcome historical and other injustices.

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    A new direction for UN in Thailand?

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 13/07/2022

    » Thailand is proudly a hub for United Nations (UN) agencies and programmes, and this adds weight to its leverage in international relations. Inevitably, the UN presence has to address key issues of sustainable development, human rights, democracy and peace. A key question is thus whether a viable balance is being struck between national practices and international aspirations.

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    UN General Assembly must assert itself

    Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 20/04/2022

    » The recent vote in the UN General Assembly (GA) suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), due to its conduct in Ukraine, in early April 2022 is a rare instance of the GA asserting its powers with binding force. Generally, only the UN Security Council (SC) can adopt measures; these are exemplified by sanctions adopted by the SC periodically against errant states, non-government armed groups and individuals. Is there then room for a more assertive GA, especially when the SC is dysfunctional?

  • 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.

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