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Case 7 related to the community right in
the case of the objection of the public
hearing process for the coal mining project
in Chiang Mai Province;
Case 8 related to the community right in
the case of allegation made to a palm oil
factory that they released waste water which
affected the community and the environment;
Case 9 related to the discrimination against
people living with HIV positive in the case
of allegation made to a private company
concerning its recruitment policy;
Case 10 related to the labour right in
the case of allegation that the contract
employees in state agencies were unfairly
treated in terms of their welfare.
3.2 The preparation of the annual report
assessing Thailand’s human rights situations
Annually, the NHRCT is mandated to prepare
a report assessing the overall human rights situations
of the country according to the year calendar between
January 1 and December 31. The report will cover
the situations of (1) civil and political rights; (2) economic,
social, and cultural rights; (3) groups of people such
as children, the elderly, the disabled, women, LGBTQI
and gender equality, stateless people and people
encountering legal status problems; and (4) specific
situations of human rights concerns. In the year 2020,
two additional issues were reported which were
human rights situations related to (1) the pandemic
of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), and (2) the political
demonstration including freedoms of expression and
assembly. The report will be presented to the Cabinet
3.1.3 Recommendations made to the government and the Parliament in March 2020.
and others including the monitoring of their
compliance
3.3 Recommendations on measures or
The NHRCT made a number of different guidelines for the promotion and protection
recommendations as mandated by law, and the of human rights
responses to such recommendations can be
In the 2020 fiscal year, the NHRCT prepared six
summarized as follows:
recommendations on major human rights issues by
(1) Concerning recommendations to prevent proposing measures or guidelines for the promotion
or to correct the situation of human rights violation, and protection of human rights, including amendment
the majority of 131 cases was related to the community and improvement of laws, rules, regulations, or orders
right, especially the participation in the large to ensure the conformity with human rights principle,
development projects which affected people and as follows:
communities. However, the measures to prevent 3.3.1 Recommendation on the issue of unfair treatment
recurring situations such as a case of ill-treatments in the workplace of government independent
by officers were also made to relevant authorities.
contractor;
In fiscal year of 2020, the NHRCT resolved, after 3.3.2 Recommendation on the accessibility to public
monitoring their compliance, that 41 cases were close transportation system for people with disabilities;
as the authorities concerned fully or substantively 3.3.3 Recommendation on the case of the elderly;
complied with the recommendations.
3.3.4 Recommendation on the case study of the traffic
(2) Concerning recommendations for human impact from the pink-line sky train construction project
rights promotion and protection in forms of measures (between Khae Rai and Min Buri);
or guidelines to 97 cases, they were related to, 3.3.5 Recommendation on the amendment of
for example, the promotion of the community right, the legislation related to the termination of pregnancy
the conflicts of land management, the equal treatment in accordance with human rights principle;
in employment.