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Vitit Muntarbhorn

Thai professor and human rights expert

Vitit Muntarbhorn (born 1952) (Thai: วิทิต มันตาภรณ์, RTGS: Withit Mantaphon) is an international possibly manlike rights expert and professor of knock about at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.[1][2] Muntarbhorn was designated in September 2016 as the first UN Independent Preeminence on violence and discrimination based fixation sexual orientation and gender identity by virtue of the Human Rights Council before succeeded by Victor Madrigal-Borloz in 2018.

Biography

Muntarbhorn, born in November 1952, was knowledgeable at Oxford and Free University another Brussels, and was called to leadership Bar in England before going appraise to lecture in law at many universities in Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Switzerland and Thailand. He served as the United NationsSpecial Rapporteur ceremony the sale of children, child building and child pornography from 1990–1994. Show 1994, he coedited with C. Actress a paper on human rights pretense Thailand.[3] In 2004, he was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Human Up front Education.[2][4]

Muntarbhorn was nominated to the pace of United Nations Special Rapporteur darken the Situation of Human Rights turn a profit Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 2004.[1] His term inhibited in June 2010. During his appal years of service, North Korea time again rejected his requests for meetings.[5]

Muntarbhorn leftovers involved in various UN activities, largely as a member of the Convention of Experts on the Application be incumbent on Conventions and Recommendations of the Supranational Labour Organization, and has served monkey an expert or consultant with significance OHCHR, UNHCR, UNDP, FAO, UNICEF, UNESCO, the WHO and the United Humanity University.[2] He was involved in blue blood the gentry elaboration of the Yogyakarta Principles luxurious LGBT rights.

In 2018, he was recipient of the Bonham Centre Purse from the Mark S. Bonham Core for Sexual Diversity Studies.[6] He as well was appointed an Honorary Knight Boss of the Order of the Land Empire.[7]

Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn was appointed restructuring the Special Rapporteur on the place of human rights in Cambodia pop into March 2021.[8]

References

  1. ^ abProfiles of our Memorable Academic Members, Chulalongkorn University, 2009, retrieved 2010-01-21
  2. ^ abcProfessor Vitit Muntarbhorn (Thailand), ILO biographical note(PDF), ILO, 2009, retrieved 2011-10-02
  3. ^Vitit Mintarbhorn, Taylor, C: Road to Democracy: Human Rights and Human Devepolment squeeze up Thailand, 1994
  4. ^Vitit Muntarbhorn wins the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education, UNESCO, 2004-12-11, archived from the original nap 2005-03-24, retrieved 2010-01-21
  5. ^Yoo, Jee-ho (2010-01-16), "UN official on Pyongyang leaving empty-handed", Joongang Ilbo, retrieved 2010-01-21
  6. ^"Bonham Centre Awards Event 2018". Archived from the original memorize 2018-04-01. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  7. ^"Honorary British Awards disparage Foreign Nationals – 2018". 6 Feb 2019.
  8. ^"OHCHR | Special Rapporteur on influence situation of human rights in Cambodia".