• Solving of labor in fishing industries by the ratification of ILO Conventions No.87 and 98 with making of
proper approach for accessing social security system and Workmen’s Compensation Fund.
The NHRCT finds that the Government makes efforts to promote and protect right to work of labors in
formal and informal sectors, e.g. the ratification of two ILO Conventions in relation with decent work with enhancing
for interpretation of designated standards for Thai workers and decent work into practices of workplaces.
3.
SPECIFIC SITUTATIONS AND CONCERNS
The NHRCT assesses overall specific situations creating massive human rights impacts nationwide
including those being under social spotlighting with actions of the government. In 2016, there are four
main with NHRCT’s concerns and recommendations as follows:
HUMAN TRAFFICKING:
The Government has vigorously fought with trafficking in persons problems with creating and applying
of laws and policies in proactive manners. The Anti-Human Trafficking Act, B.E. 2551 (2008), Sections 6 and 9 were
amended in compliance with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) that
Thailand is a state party. The meaning of trafficked persons with affiliation to sex-work or prostitution was re-defined
to cover those committing sex-work or prostitution with consent or voluntary. In addition, some laws and policies
pertaining to forced labor with in fishing and seafood industries were also revised and amended with the promulgation
of the Beggars Controlling Act, B.E. 2559 (2016), while some mechanisms and focal points were also designed and
established for ensuring of effective investigation processes and without any irregularities and irrelevant delay on
human trafficking cases. The NHRCT addresses situations with taking advantages in forms of human trafficking, as:
• Forced labors, especially with fishing industries;
• Sex work or prostitution, especially for non-Thai women in entertainment industries;
• Forced beggars with exploitation from child labors in different forms, times or places with
inappropriateness that they might risk with sexual abuses or any other human rights violation.
From overall incidents of human trafficking in Thailand, all sectors have spent their endeavors to solve
problems in various dimensions, as if, to issue and enact laws and policies with measures accelerating all working
processes with implementing and following-up of concluding observations from all human rights-responsive
mechanisms particularly the International Human Rights Treaty Bodies. The human trafficking incidents in Thailand
in 2016 would be less serious, and by then Thailand has been upgraded within the revealing of last Trafficking in
Persons report (TIP) from Tier 3 (2015) to be Tier 2 (2016). The NHRCT encourages the Government to continue
all policies and measures with vigor implementation for the elimination of human trafficking.
BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS:
The United Nations adopted the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
(in 2011) as encompassing guidance for interpreting the linking of non-binding instruments with accountabilities
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