implies people who continuously live their lives in, and are bonded to, their homeland, ways of practice and cultures of their ancestors. Moreover, a fact had been established that there was a total of 80,118 stateless old persons aging from 60 years old upwards over and 90,966 stateless children and youth who had no document to prove their personal status in education institutes (G Code children) and children and youth who were born outside of Thailand but grew up in Thailand who faced the problem related to personal status in Thai laws. As for transnational population, particularly migrant workers and their followers, the government had several policies and measures to promote rights and solve problems related to migrant workers, such as proclamation of a Royal Decree on Bringing Aliens to Work With Employers in the Country, B.E. 2559 (2016), coming up with an academic cooperation project to solve the problem of unacceptable forms of work in fishing industry and marine fishing related industry, including policy management, both prove of nationality or registration of alien labour, resulting in number of alien labour who illegally entered the country going down. While Thailand has not yet become a state party to the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Family Members (ICRMW), several major human rights treaties recognize rights of migrant workers (transnational workers). When Thailand still needs to depend on transnational labour, especially from neighbouring countries, there were challenges that affect rights of migrant workers and their followers in many areas that were the process to prove nationality of transnational labour was difficult to access and involved much expenses, and unsafe working conditions, access to and use of rights from the social security system and health insurance system, including inability to establish trade union and to become a member of trade union committee. Delays also occurred in the establishment of a “mechanism to screen and manage migration, fugitives and refugees” according to a Resolution of the Council of Ministers on 10th January 2017. Part 5 Assessment of human rights situations in 5 issues There are 5 common issues as follows: Human Trafficking Several major international human rights treaties and instruments that Thailand is a state party recognizing right to life, forbidding torture and forced labour, and protecting persons from economic and sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is therefore against human rights that Thailand recognizes. Human trafficking is in several forms, including prostitution or sex trade, forced labour, being forced to be beggar, and organ transfer, for example. In 2017, there were many cases of human trafficking and some cases involved many state officials that the US Department of State put Thailand in Tier 2 Watch List. Thailand, however, had the 3rd National Human Rights Plan, B.E. 2557-2561 (2014-2018) and several legislations and proclamation were issued to prevent human trafficking and provide protection, such as the Human Trafficking Suppression Act (3rd Issue), B.E. 2560 (2017) and Royal Decree on Administration of Works by Aliens, B.E. 2560 (2017). In countries, some cases, the court delivered verdict to punish state officials and related agencies took actions to prevent and tackle the problem of human trafficking both domestically and in cooperation with other countries. 42 | รายงานผลการประเมินสถานการณ์ด้านสิทธิมนุษยชนของประเทศไทย ปี ๒๕๖๐