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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2016 THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS ASSESSMENT REPORT
conducted by the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT)

The duty for making annual report for human rights situation assessment in Thailand with proposing
of the Parliament and Cabinet and allowing public accessibility is one of the duties entrusted to the National

Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT), within provisions of Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand,
B.E. 2550 (2007), Section 257 (8) and the National Human Rights Commission Act, B.E. 2542 (1999), Section
15 (6). The report highlights both progressive and retrogressive human rights impacts and incidents on annual

basis, assessed through two main inducive criteria, as: (i) principles and provisions in Constitution of the Kingdom
of Thailand, B.E. 2550 (2007) and Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (Interim), B.E.2557 (2014) including
other domestic laws; and (ii) rights entitled and guaranteed under seven international human rights treaties,
including international standards and pledges given by Thai government to international community.

The report for human rights situation assessment in Thailand in 2016 shall be precisely
concluded in four main parts as follows:

1. CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

The NHRCT assesses overall civil and political rights an makes more focusing on spectrums of
rights pertaining to actions against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
upon substantive rights, prescribed under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

(CAT) and International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED),
including all recommendations pledged or accepted by Thai government under from 2016 Universal Periodic
Review (UPR). The main incidents with NHRCT’s concerns and recommendations shall be presented as follows:

TORTURE AND ENFORCED DISAPPERANCE:
Thai government had drafted the Act on Prevention and Suppression towards Torture and Enforced
Disappearance, B.E. …., with harmonization of substantive matters in the CAT and the CED, the Cabinet
then adopted a Resolution dated 24th May 2016, with a consent to ratify the CED and the drafted Act.

Meanwhile, the NHRCT still receives complaints with allegations on torture and enforced disappearance
committed or linked to government officers. There are challenges with the lack of or misinterpretation of
laws and policies and ground settings for offences with allegations to torture and enforced disappearance.

These all would affect to efficiency and effectiveness of interrogation, investigation and recovery or
following-up those forcibly disappeared, e.g.:

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