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would make collective efforts to organize human
rights learning programs and activities including
ones responding to local needs with capacity
building and networking, e.g.: (i) to organize and
host “the human rights seminar with outreach
program : the Mekong study with development of
ecological and cultural communities on the bank
of Mekong river”, together with the Northeastern
Human Rights Coordinating and Learning Center
with the aim to promote the cooperation and
engagement of local universities and communities
for promoting and protecting of human rights; and
(ii) to organize and host “the human rights seminar
with outreach program on the role of teachers
in secondary schools for providing human rights
education programs”, together with the Western
Human Rights Coordinating and Learning Center.
3.6 The undertaking of human rights
study and research:
The NHRCT had duties and powers
to support, promote and collaborate with
individuals, public agencies and private sectors
for conducting researches and studies with
the dissemination of human rights knowledge,
awareness raising and strengthening human
rights mechanisms for their full functions
delivered, including to give redress or remedy
to all affected persons.
In the fiscal year 2019, the NHRCT together
with the Thailand Development Research
Institute (TDRI) had conducted a human rights
research for elaborating bodies of knowledge
to promote and protect human rights and to
develop efficiency for operations of relevant
organizations, under the Research Integration
Plan with Innovation, entitled “the Guidance
for Promoting and Protecting Rights of Migrant
Workers in Thailand : Case of Migrant Workers
in Poultry Industry”.
Meanwhile the NHRCT was disseminating
results of 3 human rights researches conducted
to relevant organizations and the public, as: (i)
the area-based Participatory Action Research for
Solving and Mitigating Human Rights Violation,
entitled “the Movement for Human Rights of
Folk Fishermen Communities on Coastal Area
of Pattani Gulf”; (ii) the study and research on
“the Linkages of Community Rights with Natural
Resources and Environment, under Constitution
of the Kingdom of Thailand, B.E. 2560 (2017)” ;
and (iii) the study and research on “the Making of
Policy Recommendations or Measures for
Protecting and Promoting the Rights of the Elderly”.
3.7 The supporting of collaboration and
linkages with efforts made to international
human rights communities:
3.7.1 In the matter of cooperation made
among relevant human rights treaty bodies,
human rights-responsive agencies and the NHRCT,
there were two shadow reports compiled with
drafts, as : (i) on the compliance with the ICERD;
and (ii) on the compliance with the CRC.
3.7.2 In the matter of cooperation made
among the NHRIs, the NHRCT, as a member of
the Global Alliance of National Human Rights
Institutions (GANHRI), the Asia-Pacific Forum of
National Human Rights Institutions (APF) and the
South East Asia National Human Rights Institutions
Forum (SEANF), has close cooperation with visibility
in different platforms made, e.g. to attend the 2019
Annual Meeting of GANHRI which highlighting