Vitit muntarbhorn biography samples

  • Vitit Muntarbhorn is an international law

    • U.N. appoints first-ever LGBT rights watchdog

    On June 23 of last year, I held the microphone as a gay man in the New Orleans City Council Chamber and related a lost piece of queer history to the seven council members. I told this story to disabuse all New Orleanians of the notion that silence and accommodation, in the face of institutional and official failures, are a path to healing.  

    The story I related to them began on a typical Sunday night at a second-story bar on the fringe of New Orleans’ French Quarter in , where working-class men would gather around a white baby grand piano and belt out the lyrics to a song that was the anthem of their hidden community, “United We Stand” by the Brotherhood of Man. 

    “United we stand,” the men would sing together, “divided we fall” — the words epitomizing the ethos of their beloved UpStairs Lounge bar, an egalitarian free space that served as a forerunner to today’s queer safe havens. 

    Around that piano in the s Deep South, gays and lesbians, white and Black queens, Christians and non-Christians, and even early gender minorities could cast aside the racism, sexism, and homophobia of the times to find acceptance and companionship for a moment. 

    For regulars, the UpStairs Lounge was a miracle, a small pocket of acceptance in a broader world where their very identities were illegal. 

    On the Sunday night of June 24, , their voices were silenced in a murderous act of arson that claimed 32 lives and still stands as the deadliest fire in New Orleans history — and the worst mass killing of gays in 20th century America. 

    As 13 fire companies struggled to douse the inferno, police refused to question the chief suspect, even though gay witnesses identified and brought the soot-covered man to officers idly standing by. This suspect, an internally conflicted gay-for-pay sex worker named Rodger Dale Nunez, had been ejected from the UpStairs Lounge screaming the word &#;burn&#; minutes before, b

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    BERLIN, 11 May Transgender Europe just published its annual Trans Rights Map. It shows an increase in trans rights in the region on the whole. However, the risk of regression and anti-trans backlash is pressing at the same time. Finland followed Iceland (and four other countries) to recognise the gender identity of trans parents within binary options. Read more. (graphic: TGEU)

    BRUSSELS, 11 May : ILGA-Europe just issued its new Rainbow Europe package including map and index. It shows that &#; despite intense anti-LGBTIQ* attacks in several countries &#; equality is still advancing across Europe. For rainbow families, there were i.e. good news in Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Finland. Read more. (graphic: ILGA-Europe)

    BRUSSELS, 19 April Professor Alina Tryfonidou (University of Paphos, Cyprus and Reading, UK) just published her new study, entitled: &#;Cross-Border Legal Recognition of Parenthood in the EU&#;. It has as its aim to analyse the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on the recognition of parenthood in the EU. It also provides a critical assessment of the proposal and issues policy recommendations for its improvement. Read more. (graphic: EU, NELFA)

    KARLSRUHE, 23 March : Do you want to broaden your playlist with rainbow family hits? Then, have a look at LGBTIQ* activist and singer-song-writer Anica Abd-el-Ghani from Germany, an active member of LSVD and ILSE. You can find 13 colourful songs for kids in German on this Spotify account. (photo: Anica Abd-el-Ghani)

    DURHAM, 06 March A new US-Chinese meta-analysis of 34 studies on rainbow families concludes: “Most of the family outcomes are similar between sexual minority and heterosexual families, and sexual minority families have even better outcomes in some domains.” The highest risk is stigma and homophobia. Read more in this German article. (photo: , MDR/ Anna Wulffert)

    BRUSSELS, 20 February ILGA-Europe publ

    Children Deprived of Liberty: Learning from the UN Global Study

    Despite the fact that the Convention of the Rights of the Child affirms that, in principle, children should not be detained and deprivation of liberty should be a measure of last resort, millions of children in the world are locked away.

    To assess and address this situation, the United Nations appointed Prof. Manfred Nowak as Independent Expert to lead an in-depth Global Study on children deprived of liberty.

    This MOOC stems from the UN Global Study and provides insights, learning and recommendations in this important area at the crossroad of children, violence, and human rights studies.



    Course Outline

    The course is articulated in 4 modules:

    • Module 1 focuses on the general framework of the Study and looks at legal standards, guiding principles, definitions, objectives and methodology. It also offers an overview of the history of the Global Study and its links with the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
    • Module 2 deals with the cross-cutting themes that have been identified in the Study: personal liberty, children’s participation, disability, gender and health.
    • Module 3 is dedicated to the six focus areas of the Study: administration of justice, children living in places of detention with their primary caregivers, migration-related detention, children deprived of liberty in institutions, in armed conflict and for national security reasons.
    • Module 4 looks at the making of the UN Global Study in practice and discusses challenges, opportunities, recommendations and the way forward.

    Lecturers and Experts

    The MOOC has been designed in close cooperation with the UN Global Study Team. The faculty includes the following lecturers and experts (read bios here), among others:


    Manfred Nowak

    Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liber

  • 21 Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn

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