Together we learn from each other. Inspiring lunch with distinguished 🇹🇭 experts in the UN international human rights mechanisms. Kudos to their tireless efforts in promoting & protecting human rights around the 🌎.🇸🇪 🇹🇭 🇺🇳
Have a closer look at the keynote speeches, panels and workshops of the @ASEAN-🇨🇭Forum on #SDG12 and #BHR tomorrow!
I look forward to all these exchanges with many interesting moderators & speakers!
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COVID19 Vaccine Statement by the CESCR. Para 8 urges pharmaceutical companies to refrain from invoking IPRs that would prevent the right of everyone to access a safe and effective vaccine! Timely reminder of relevance of BHR & COVID19! #humanrights#UnitedNations
#CESCR: With vaccines now available, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issues a statement on international cooperation & intellectual property, calling for #VaccinEquity, universal access to vaccination and equal global distribution 👉 https://t.co/b8HpysSNtE
#CESCR: With vaccines now available, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issues a statement on international cooperation & intellectual property, calling for #VaccinEquity, universal access to vaccination and equal global distribution 👉 https://t.co/b8HpysSNtE
Rotation of governors of the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Five of the 11 SET governors are required to vacate their office at half term and new ones are elected and appointed in their place. This staggered term will see rotation every 1.5 years.
#stockexchangeofthailand, #SET
Remarkable development. Ramification for ASEAN? (All 10 states have ratified the CRC, but not the ICCPR.
"UN finds Netherlands violated human rights of stateless child" https://t.co/983NBomA5P
#HumanRights, #childrenrights, #statelessness, #righttonationality
On 9 December 2020, the Certificate Awarding Ceremony was arranged by IRDP during the closing ceremony of the 13th Digital Economy for Management (DE4M) Programme, while the closing address was delivered by Lt. Col. Naravit Pao-in, DE4M Programme Advisor, as the guest of honor.
Human Rights Day 2020
“Recover Better” is the theme for Human Rights Day 2020. Invited by the OHCHR and the EU delegation in Thailand to give a keynote speech, I pointed out that observance of human rights would be the way toward full and equitable recovery.
#HumanRightsDay
AICHR CSO Symposium (Chiang Rai, Thailand)
I am very pleased to organise the AICHR CSO Symposium, the first event of its kind for the ASEAN human rights body, from 13-15 October 2018. The Symposium was special since it was part training and part dialogue…https://t.co/2en4BKCXWJ
On 3 October, I was invited to present the salient points of the ASEAN Enabling Masterplan 2025 to the Ministers of social welfare and development from all 10 ASEAN Member States at their 20th Meeting of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Council in Singa…https://t.co/OHwdtr2crq
From 14-15 September 2018, I convened the 8th meeting of Task Force on the Mainstreaming of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the ASEAN Community. At this meeting, the Task Force was able to conclude the negotiation of the ASEAN Enabling Masterpl…https://t.co/FWEnUA6lkC
Mainstreaming Disability Rights in the East Asian Economic Community.
I had the great pleasure to give a keynote address to the Network of East Asian Think-tanks (NEAT) Working Group 2018 on the mainstreaming of the rights of persons with disabilities in…https://t.co/oC6w8higfi
ASEAN Network of Entrepreneurs with Disabilities (Thailand Social Expo 2018)
Persons with disabilities have equal rights to be employed and to ‘employ’ others. Thus, while employment of persons with disabilities continues to be a serious policy issue, de…https://t.co/OO1MGn4Zyi
Special Meeting of the AICHR (Singapore)
The AICHR met at a special meeting in Singapore from 31 July-3 August 2018. During the meeting, the AICHR had an interface with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers (for the first time in a luncheon setting). I raised the…https://t.co/PK7fx6xFeQ
Strengthen Legal Aid Cooperation for ASEAN People
I am very honoured to join the Rights and Liberty Protection Department of the Ministry of Justice to organise the workshop on legal aid in ASEAN member states on 8 June in Bangkok. I am also leading the…https://t.co/RFuluxVD28
The 7th Meeting of the Task Force on the Mainstreaming of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the ASEAN Community.
At the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta on 6 July, I co-chaired the Task Force at its 7th Meeting. Again we interfaced with the ASEAN Di…https://t.co/xEbge2ZNuO
At the OECD Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct from 20-21 June in Paris, I joined two panels. One on ‘Tackling modern slavery in supply chains’ on 20 June and the other on ‘National Action Plans: addressing gaps and enabling policy coherence on…https://t.co/piiJQpaPWn
The AICHR Interregional Dialogue on business and human rights was successfully concluded. Spreading over 3 days from 4-6 June, the ten Dialogue sessions focused on different themes, from supply chain management, gender perspective, grievance mechanism, to…https://t.co/QiOx9uFMkv