Execlusive Summary Human rights defenders At present, human rights defenders are very important in the promotion and fights for human rights protection. In Thailand, there are individual persons or groups of persons who present themselves as human rights defenders in the area of natural resources and environment or right in the justice process, all of which are related to use of state power. When situation concerning human rights defenders was considered, it was found that cases of human rights defenders facing problems and obstacles in their fights to protect and demand rights and liberties of themselves and other people still continued to occur continuously whether they were impacts from legal mechanisms being used to sue human rights defenders in court or uses of power by state officials which were suspected to be done illegally. It could be considered that the universally adopted principle of the ICCPR and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights Defenders were still not much accepted or put into practices in Thailand. At the same time, it was concerned that taking human rights defenders to court on a charge of libel by advertisement had become a trend which may make them fearful to come out and express their views through various channels, especially online media. It is also noted that importance of human rights defenders was an issue that did not appear clearly in legal mechanisms or state policies. The NHRCT recommends the government to take following actions: (1) conduct a study on appropriateness for having legislation to prevent Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) as a legal mechanism to protect individual persons or groups of people who act as human rights defenders; (2) listen to and monitor situations faced by human rights defenders in order to know their problems and find ways to solve the problems; and (3) raise awareness of state agencies about the justice process in order that they understand human rights defenders and context of various duties related to human rights defenders in order to consider appropriateness for enforcement of law and do related duties. คณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งชาติ | 45 Summary and right to live in good environment since the town planning law and building control law that had content and process to protect the people’s right to participation and right to live in good environment. When enforcement of these two laws were exempted in areas where special economic zone projects were to be implemented, local people there faced risks from various impacts. In addition, situations were found to present challenges from use of Section 44 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), B.E. 2557 (2014) to enact or enforce laws or policies related to economic development in some areas by exempting certain enforcement of law or be lenient for some standards of actions, resulting in risks that may have human rights impacts.