032 3.6 Human rights study and research As prescribed by law, the NHRCT has duties and powers to promote, support, and cooperate with individuals, state and private agencies in a study, research, and dissemination of knowledge and capacity development in the field of human rights, including the provision of assistance or remedy to persons affected by human rights violation. In the fiscal year 2020, the NHRCT together with Thailand Development Research Institution (TDRI) conducted human rights study and research under the integrated research and innovation plan. The topics covered the issues concerning natural resources management and sustainable environment. The chronic problem related to community rights and their local natural resources was also studied under the topic “The Relationship between Community Rights and Natural Resources and Environment under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2017”. of national human rights institutions. As for the framework of cooperation with the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), the NHRCT together with members of SEANF participated in different meetings to discuss the human rights issues of common concern such the right to development, the right of people with disabilities. The NHRCT also cooperated with foreign government agencies, international and civil society organizations, participating in four workshops including the regional workshop on human rights monitoring for the preparation of human rights situation assessment report. 3.7.3 Monitoring the government’s implementation of international human rights standards and obligations In 2020, the NHRCT submitted two parallel reports to the UN treaty bodies, namely (1) parallel report on Thailand’s implementation in compliance 3.7 The promotion of international human with the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and (2) parallel report on rights cooperation and coordination Thailand’s implementation in compliance with 3.7.1 Cooperation with other national human rights the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). institutions The cooperation between the NHRCT and other national human rights institutions continued, 3.7.4 Application for GANHRI re-accreditation namely the Global Alliances of National Human Rights process The NHRCT attached importance to fully Institutions (GANHRI), the Asia-Pacific Forum of national human rights institutions (APF), and the South participate as an independent national human rights East Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum institution in international fora. As all the concerns (SEANF). Activities included meetings and seminars of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) under to share experiences and to discuss the issues of GANHRI were addressed, in 2021 the NHRCT submitted mutual concern such as the prevention of torture application for re-accreditation to the secretariat of the SCA. Due to the situation of Coronavirus in South East Asia region. 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the SCA meeting for 3.7.2 Cooperation with UN, international and civil the accreditation review was postponed to December. society organizations The NRHCT cooperated with United Nations agencies through its participation in meetings and workshops on several topics, especially the role