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The uneven development of economy and technology ○ ○ ○ Human Rights Situations
○ and Challenges
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between developed and developing countries is also widening. ○
It results in the inequitable access to information, knowledge ○ ○ ○
and opportunities to development for poorer people. Moreover, ○ ○

multinational companies have exploited natural resources in ○ ○ ○
developing countries by means of economic liberalisation ○ ○ ○

advocated by developed world and international financial ○ ○ ○
institutions. As a result, the realisation of the right to development ○ ○
is increasingly contentious. ○ ○ ○ ○

2. The domestic human rights situation and ○
challenges ○ ○ ○

2.1 Thailand’s obligations under international human rights ○ ○ ○ ○
instruments and challenges ○ ○ ○

Thailand was, for the first time, elected a member of the ○ ○ ○

United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and will serve a ○ ○ ○
three-year term between 2001 and 2003. Apart from such special ○ ○ ○
tasks to promote and protect human rights internationally, ○ ○

Thailand has to comply with the obligations under the following ○ ○ ○
international human rights treaties to which it is a party: ○ ○ ○

1) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ○ ○ ○ ○

Discrimination against Women (acceding on 9 August 1985 and ○ ○
entry into force on 8 September 1985) and its Optional Protocol ○ ○ ○

(ratifying on 14 June 2000 and entry into force on 22 December ○ ○ ○
2000); ○ ○ ○

2) Convention on the Rights of the Child (acceding on ○ ○ ○
27 March 1992, entry into force on 26 April 1992); ○ ○ ○ ○

3) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ○ ○ ○

(acceding on 29 October 1996 and entry into force on 29 January ○ ○ ○
1997); ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

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