โครงการศึกษาวิจัยเพื่อจัดทาข้อเสนอแนะนโยบายหรือมาตรการเพื่อคุ้มครองและส่งเสริมสิทธิของผู้สูงอายุ :1111 กรณีการเลือกปฏิบัติในผู้สูงอายุ | xxxv persons. An Open-end Working Group on Aging (OWGA) was established in 2010 to collect information on the situations and find the gaps in protecting the human rights of older persons under the existing international treaties and suggest measures or instruments in protecting the rights of older persons. At present, there has not been any conclusion to present to UN General Assembly. However, the 7th Session of OWGA meetings in 2016 agreed to have “focal areas” with 14 issues for discussion by the participants in the future sessions. In each session, two issues will be selected as the focal area for discussion. However, when considering the 5 principles and 18 rights of older persons from the UN Principles for Older Persons, the focal areas are consistent with the UN Principles. For Thailand, the protection of the rights of older persons under the UN Principles has been well followed before 2003 by stating the protection of the rights of older persons in the Constitution (1997), establishing the Declaration of Oler Persons (1999) and the National Older Person Commission (2003) as well as the Older Persons Fund and Department of Older Persons Activities under the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security. However, the policy instruments to protect the rights of older persons are mainly related to social welfare. Under the social welfare policy, the government is the major welfare provider and the older persons are only welfare receivers due to the public perception that the older persons are vulnerable and independent. This is not conformed with the UN Principles on Older Persons, i.e., Principles (1) Autonomy, (2) Participation, (4) Self-fulfillment, and (5) Dignity. Suggestion in preparation to ratify the upcoming Convention on the Rights of Older Persons to the National Human Rights Commission in order to convey to the National Older Person Commission are as followed: (1) To amend the laws from the Constitution and the Older Person Act by including the rights to be independent, to participate, to be taken care of, to be self-fulfilled, and to have dignity. (2) To expand the roles of the National Older Person Commission and the scope of the Older Person Fund to cover the rights of older persons according to the UN Principles. (3) To establish a social security system up to the international standard. (4) To provide social welfare system by the relevant government agencies to provide the programs both for free and for co-payment and to set up concrete criteria for selecting qualified receivers in order to imitagate the discretionary power of the officials