communities centers for prevention and fighting narcotic drug problem and use of chemicals to prevent and eradicate pests which affected human health. Therefore the government was recommended to speed up public health care reform in term of health insurance system, primary medicine system, and health care manpower management to reduce inequality among the people in term of their access to right to public health care service. Right to work ICESCR, of which Thailand is a state party and has many obligations that must be observed, guarantees right to work in Article 6, 7 and 8, including (1) right to work, (2) right to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work, and (3) right to form and join trade union, while the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand, B.E. 2560 (2017) has provisions about labour in Section 30, Section 40 and Section 42. In 2017, the government took several actions to promote and protect the right to work, such as proclamation of the Labour Protection Act (6th Issue), B.E. 2560 (2017) which added provisions about retirement and payment of compensation in case of retirement, lifting minimum wage rate in some areas and implementing administrative measures to continuously deal with informal labour. These actions were in line with the brief notes on action report no.1 and no.2 of the ICESCR Committee and recommendations from UPR process, Round 2, especially about expansion of protection by the social insurance scheme, for example. However, it was still found that some problems and obstacles may prevent protection of Thai labour’s right to work from being as effective as it should, such as demand for minimum wage rate that was inconsistent with the cost of living and the minimum wage rate was not equally raised all over the country. The minimum wage, even after being raised, was still not enough to cover costs of living for a worker oneself and other two family members which is a principle adopted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Thai state also still did not make any progress in term of being a state party to ILO Conventions no.87 and no.98 as much as it should. Some groups and types of employees were not covered by the minimum wage requirements. Absence of check on rules related to work according to provisions in the Labour Protection Act (6th Issue) B.E. 2560 (2017). Part 4 Assessment of human rights situation of 6 groups of people Human rights situations of 6 specific groups of people are as follows: Children Thailand has 13,730,927 children aged 0 - 17 years old. Committee of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has concerns on human rights situations of children in Thailand in some major areas, that are malnutrition, lack of law to regulate advertisements of breast milk substitute products, protection of children from sexual exploitation, protection of children from violence, protection of relocated children and children of relocated labour, prevention of accidents and injuries among children, and development 38 | รายงานผลการประเมินสถานการณ์ด้านสิทธิมนุษยชนของประเทศไทย ปี ๒๕๖๐