Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik the liberal West itself, all this is no simple matter. There is real and urgent need to do a rethinking, that is to say, far beyond a mere dealing with the specific cases at hand. As stressed in the 3rd ASEAN Workshop, May 2003, we need to clarify our own position as to who we are as the people and in what direction to go. From the ASEAN dialogue and the Thai NHRC’s own experiences, there are at least three considerations that need to be taken care of in the process of carrying out our mission for the promotion and protection of human rights. First and foremost is the task of common people’s capacity building. Here human rights education has a most vital role to play. This is not just the matter of formal one in schools or universities, though. It needs to be carried through the investigating process right on the spot where the incidents of human rights violation take place. The point is to draw upon the participation of all the parties concerned with a view to promoting social learning and training in real life. Then relevant research could be taken up in a systematic way to have disseminated all such concrete experiences to the public at large. All these case studies could indeed very well be fed back into the curricula of those educational institutions concerned. In sum, to make human rights a truly objective and relevant as social learning, both in and out of school, with civil society participation and people-to-people cooperation. Secondly, is a holistic view to be taken with fellow human beings in question as the centre of attention, not on the basis of which and which category of human rights they belong to in the reductionist fashion of current international standard and practice. For, again, in real life especially in the non-western world, both the CPRs and ESCRs are closely inter-related and interdependent in the incidence of infringements on human right and human dignity. Indeed, more often than not, they form a unifying whole. In Thailand, we have been witnessing cases of ESCRs violation spilling over into CPRs problems. The legitimate public protests against the gas pipelines project in the South is one such good example that soon gives rise to 62 OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THAILAND