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the Government also mobilizes and implements all other policies and measures with overcoming of
achievements, as: a project for granting of legal statuses for persons facing statelessness, especially children

and youth regardless their education status for being Thai; the Announcement of Ministry of Interior with
temporarily allowing stateless and nationality-less persons registered to be able to commute out of their
domicile districts but still be in a domicile province.

The NHRCT has concerns on rights situations of 80,118 elders facing nationality problems (those

aging from 60 years old) meanwhile there are 90,966 undocumented children and youth facing statelessness
and nationality problems being enrolled under educational institutions and children and youth growing-up in
Thailand (born outside Thailand) facing problems with personal legal status development under Thai laws.

GROUPS OF PESONS WITH DISABILITIES:
The Government has taken a number of progressive actions with promotion, protection and development
of life quality of persons with disabilities, covering the accession for Optional Protocol to the Convention
of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (OP-CRPD) with ensuring of the communications and complaint

handling procedures of rights and liberties of persons with disabilities are in place as well as more effective
remedy provided. In addition by virtue of the NCPO’s Order No.58/2559 on accessibility of public health services
for persons with disabilities in accordance with the National Health Security Act and Social Security Act,

the disparities among persons with disabilities are being reduced, meanwhile persons with disabilities are also
encouraged through specific laws and policies, with the life quality developments by reaching some benefits
and affirmative actions provided, e.g. a project on income generation for 10,000 persons with disabilities with
mobilizing of employment for persons with disabilities; a policy with agenda in 2016 with collaboration on
education management for person with special needs for encouraging all persons with disabilities to be able to

access to all kinds and all levels of education systems and the intensifying of universal designs for all people.

The NHRCT somehow finds gaps and challenges of policy harnessing on promotion of quality of

life of persons with disabilities, especially those residing in remote or rural areas with and would like to ask
the Government to provide more efforts making for awareness raising with the public pertaining to rights of
persons with disabilities.

GROUPS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH:

In 2016, the Government adopts some measures with actions taken corresponding to concerns
of the Committee to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), as: to provide more
resources with nutrition and feeding for new born infants; to adopt the draft law supervising advertisement

for products substituting breast feeds; to issue measures and solutions for solving problems of drop-out; to
protect children from all violations; and to protect children from all forms of child labors. Meanwhile, there
are some incidents with concerns addressed as follows:
• Violence against children;
• Incidents with death of children from being drown, road accidents and accidents from school transportation,

there are 699 death toll of children being drown and 10 died from road accidents with excursion and school transportation;

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