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policies and measures, e.g. on the promotion of gender equity and equal opportunity; on the
affirmative actions for older people and persons with disabilities; on the social inclusion and on
the education management with promotion of social and cultural pluralism, nonetheless these
still could not solve problems with sustainability.

Some challenges are being addressed as: the centralization of power and decisions
made with only or within the state apparatuses or central authorities as well as the implementa-
tion of policies with centralization of powers covering various dimensions of management, as:
economy, society, culture, education and politics with the limits of accessibility of information and
news and of people’s participation in decision and policy making processes.

In 2014, there were several projects creating serious problems on natural resources
and environmental management with the development of industries and mega projects. These
projects were being run by both government and private sectors and without the respect to
individual and community rights guaranteed under the Constitution. Some projects were not
running the health and environmental impact assessments in accordance with the Constitution,
while for those with assessments committed were found with dependence and incompletion in
terms of methodologies and means. In addition, there were various groups found with inaccessibility
to fundamental human rights and public welfares or even could be able to access but with very
limited and /or inadequate quality, e.g. the ethnic groups, persons with disabilities, marginalized
people, older people, children and women. There were limits of rooms of such vulnerable groups
on side of “rights holders” for participation and decision-making mechanisms. These affected to
the possibility of sustainable management responding to their actual needs and problems.
The human rights situation of Thailand in 2014 during the ruling of Government,
appointed by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), as well as the promulgation
of Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), B.E. 2557 (2014) and the Constitutional
Drafting Process, the NHRCT would like to intensify the Government to made its vigorous efforts
to promote and protect human rights with undertaking and maintaining of the Legal State and
Rule of Law. The specific laws with limit and deprivation of rights and liberty shall be only used
with appropriateness and proportionality, corresponding to specific situations happened. In the
meantime, the rooms for people’s participation shall be built with hearings of public opinions,
particularly those individuals and communities affected by the State’s policy implementation.

And for the newly-emerging challenges or problems in Thailand, as: the changing of
structure of Thai society with “majority of older population” in the next 10 years; the movement
of people across borders, covering migrant workers, refugees or people fleeing fighting and
economic migrants with committing of cross-border crimes and human trafficking; and the increase
of trans-boundary human rights infringements committed by Thai business sectors or investments,
they all make violations becoming more complication and of course would be what the Thai
Government and relevant actors need to spend their concerns and efforts for preventing and
solving of problems corresponding to the ongoing and further changes.