Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik traditional resource rights marginalized and trampled upon. The result is human impoverishment and natural degradation. In the circumstances, then, a new democracy is to be required and worked out with local communities as its base. Indeed, indigenous peoples and rural communities can significantly provide part of the answer. There remains one final point to be taken note of here. The need for self-reform has already been earlier mentioned. The emphasis is on the principle of self-reliance and right to self-development. Community rights are being raised here, not just for the sake of defense mechanism against encroachment from outside, but mainly as the foundation of a new global democratic order, so that the principle of social protection and human-enabling/ nature-conserving economy can realistically be established. It is that, on top of the traditional resource rights as well comprehensively prescribed in the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, something needs to be done with regard to the existing structure of power relationships within community itself. For one thing, for community rights to be universally recognized and respected, the value and rights of individuals must be well taken into account. In this respect, we can learn a good deal from the West, despite all its shortcomings. Coming into the changing and globalizing world, local communities also need human creativity. And true creativity can only come from free and open society. The point is that community rights as a system also need to allow for individual rights and creativity. Undoubtedly this is a highly delicate task inevitably involved in the process of social change. It is the fundamental question of how human aspirations and rising expectations, especially of new generations, can be accommodated and fulfilled. So this is problem of the future, and no status quo can ever provide solution. It is indeed the great challenge, that is, challenge from within. One only has high hope that local traditional knowledge and wisdom will be able to live up to its potential creativity in the common task of social reconstruction, globally and locally. 40 OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF THAILAND