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SUMMARY OF THE 2014 HUMAN RIGHTS

EVALUATION REPORT OF THAILAND

The duty for making of Annual Human Rights Evaluation Report of Thailand
is one of the main mandates, stipulated under Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand,
B.E. 2550 (2007), Section 257, Paragraph One (8) and the National Human Rights Commission Act,
B.E. 2542 (1999), Article 15 (6), that: the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT)
shall make the Annual Human Rights Evaluation Report of Thailand, for presenting to the
Parliament and the Cabinet with public accessibility.

For this 2014 Report, the NHRCT acquired and collected facts and information
from main human rights-relating incidents spotlighting to broad interests of government and
non-government sectors, mass media, the public and international community and/or with the
reflection to human rights promotion and protection in Thailand, including those being handled
by the NHRCT’s efforts for investigating, reporting and making recommendations to
the Government and relevant entities. All gained were analyzed and synthesized with
designed criteria and baselines. And due to the great efforts made with impartiality, non-bias or not
being in doubt with sources of information, the NHRCT mainly utilized its primary database
collected from the complaint handling processes or on any other duties undertaken to be main
components of data analysis, while in some specific parts, they were also double-checked with
accuracy and reliability of the facts enquired from other sources.
This Report covers nine human rights dimensions, grouped on bases of Thailand’s ratified
Human Rights Treaties, the 2010 - 2015 Strategies and Frameworks of the NHRCT and all principal
concerns of the public. These dimensions are certainly universal, inalienable, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated as: the Civil and Political Rights; the Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights; the Rights in Judicial Process; the Community Rights; the Rights to Lands and
Forests; the Rights of Women and Children with Gender Equity; the Rights of Older Persons,
People with Disabilities and Public Health; the Rights of Ethnic Groups and Legal Status; and the
Human Rights in Deep South provinces.

Most of concerns raised within this Report are linked to various violations found within
transitional period of the politics, ruling syatems and social movements and certainly relating to
proposals and demands being raised from prolonged demonstrations, especially for the
Country Reform with most concerns on solving of principal disparities, non-equity and unjust
since 2010. These all are becoming structural problems with inter-linkages and complexities
while also relating to the enjoyment of fundamental human rights entitled to the individuals and
communities, e.g. the right to appropriated minimum standard of livelihood, right to health,
right to education and right to work, etc.

And although the Government has created numerous interventions for solving principal
disparities, non-equity and unjust, especially to issue a number of laws and regulations with