Vitit Muntarbhorn
Special Rapporteur
on the Situation of Human Rights in the DRPK
United Nations

This program will address the key issues and perspectives pertaining to human rights in North Korea, focusing in particular on refugees and human trafficking.

This is the third in a series of three programs inaugurating KEI's new Human Security in North Korea Forum, designed to improve understanding of the steps required to identify and respond to the needs of North Koreans. The UNDP's 1994 Human Development Report identified seven threat areas to human security: economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political security. KEI’s new forum will address those issues at the top of the human security agenda for North Korea. Programs will be held periodically and each will fall under one of our three main topic areas: humanitarian assistance, development assistance, and human rights.

Please join KEI as we welcome and engage Professor Vitit Muntabhorn in this topic.

ON THE RECORD

Professor Vitit Muntabhorn, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the DPRK, is also Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is an eminent expert in human rights with over 500 publications, and combines the qualities of a scholar, an educator, a policy-making adviser and a grass-root human rights activist. He has served in various capacities for the United Nations system. In 1990-1994, he was Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. In 2004, Professor Muntabhorn was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education in recognition of his outstanding contribution to education for human rights and diverse activities at national, regional and international levels in favor of promotion and protection of human rights.