Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik
The main idea is to set up a sort of built-in process as part of the
system in which people from various walks of life could join in. As far as the
task of human rights promotion and protection is concerned, it is not to
be left to the bureaucratic mechanism alone. That in itself would most
likely defeat the whole purpose of having the NHRC as open institution
for social learning. The first tier of networking has now been settled, at least
for the beginning stage. It could be called tripartite coordinating mechanism,
consisting of Commissioners, secretariat officers, and citizens. The last but
not least could be selected from academic communities, NGOs, civil society
groups, workers, farmers, or other professional and vocational groups, who
are deemed qualified as human rights defenders. The whole thing is
organized and divided into a number of sub-Commissions according to the
subject matters involved and each being equipped with a degree of legal
authority in performing their duties. What is particularly significant about
this first tier of networking is that all the three parties concerned are to
make joint preliminary decisions as to how to proceed with the cases or
policy studies assigned them. The final decision and responsibility rests of
course with the NHRC, according to the Constitution. All this is roughly
how the working process is being worked out. The following groupings
and lists of sub-Commissions could help demonstrate the scope and scale
of problems and issues being taken up by the current Thai NHRC.
Group 1: Coordinating sub-Commission on Human Rights Protection:
- Human Rights Protection sub-Commission 1,
- Human Rights Protection sub-Commission 2,
- Human Rights Protection sub-Commission 3.
Group 2: Coordinating sub-Commission on Law and Judicial Process:
- Law sub-Commission,
- Judicial Process sub-Commission.
Group 3: Coordinating sub-Commission on Social Affairs:
- Sub-Commission on Media and Social Relations,
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OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THAILAND