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lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) found, especially within media coverage
that cause reproduce and retain of stigmas towards LGBTIQ and social exclusion;

• Status identity recognition, particularly within laws and policies, there are very few with avoidance
of binary concept of sex, but spectrum of choices, nonetheless some laws, especially the draft Same Sex
Marriage Act, are still pending with delay and irregularities;
• Religion and culture with gender inclusion, LGBTIQ are more accepted in term of social cohesion
with employment, particularly within entertainment industry while there are some reports with abusive manners

claimed, particularly on systematic discrimination on grounds of access to education, vocational training programs
for capacity strengthening, job seeking and application and being government officers or in any careers;
• Empathization with more broad mindset and accurate understandings, it addresses that some

groups of people might have positive perceptions with SOGI and LGBTIQ, while there are some rooms of
understandings that might need to be filled with gender sensitivity.

GROUPS OF THE OLDER PERSONS:
The Government undertakes various actions with fulfilling of rights of the older persons including

the issuing of policies and laws with adoption of national action plans and measures corresponding to the
need of older persons, nonetheless Thailand is ranked as 34th from 96 countries worldwide with Global
Age Watch Index, highlighting vital schemes showing life quality of the older persons as: income security,

health, competencies and friendly environment. The NHRCT addresses some challenges as follows:
• On the economic rights, some older persons are struggling with poverty, they earn lower
income than poverty line (2,647 THB/person/moth), while they are depended on incomes of other family
members or persons and there is none of certain source of incomes for daily life;
• On the accessibility to social security, many of older persons are facing constraints with daily

subsistence taken;
• On the matters of living with violation, some are found with unaccompanied and isolation,
discrimination and lack of infrastructure with appropriateness for older persons, financial exploitation and

there is none of caregiving in the long run.

In addition, there are some reports exposing increased number of older persons committing suicides
on annual basis, while some policies and laws are not near the achievements. The NHRCT would like to propose
the Government to proceed any affirmative and concrete actions with necessity for ensuring such rights would

be made to be real with the mobilization of solutions and resources for older persons; the guaranteeing,
protection and promotion on rights of older persons; and the acts in accordance with development
policies and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), capacities strengthening and networking with promotion

and protection of rights of older persons; and the enhancing of constructing of United Nations Convention
on the Rights of Older Persons under a framework of UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing.

GROUPS OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES:
Thailand has not yet ratified the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members

of their Families (ICRMW) but for the rights of migrant workers (alien labour), they are guaranteed under

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