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Execlusive Summary

Part 3 Assessment of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights situations

There are three main issues: Summary

Right to education

The government had a variety of policies and measures to guarantee the right to education.
They also continuously took actions to guarantee the right to education consistent with Article 13 of

the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). These actions included
preparation of the National Education Plan, B.E. 2560-2579 (2017-2036), appointment of an independent
Committee for Education Reform, giving priority (18 percent of total government budget) to education
in national budget allocation, guaranteeing access to 15-year basic education, providing free higher

(tertiary) education based on interests and abilities through the Thai MOOC Project, providing extra
cash to small schools both at primary and secondary level and scholarships to poor students, using
remote sensing technology to develop education quality, allowing the private sector and civil society
sector to participate in providing education together with the State, and enactment of the Loan Fund

for Education Act, B.E. 2560 (2017), for example. However, structural problems and obstacles concerning
accessibility for the right to education, especially among marginalized children and youth who had no
access to education, particularly compulsory education and education that had the quality consistent
with their way of life. Therefore, the government was recommended to speed up education reform in

the way that is consistent with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand, B.E. 2560 (2017), particularly
to reduce inequality, and to conduct assessment of its successes and disseminate information about
the progress from the government’s implementation of policies, laws, measures and mechanisms to
the public, so that they recognize existence and access to the right to education.

Right to good health

The government came up with various policies and measures to guarantee the right to good health,

and put continuous efforts to achieve the highest attainable standard of health in its provisions of public
health care that was adequately responded to the needs of the people and Article 12 of the ICESCR, such
as guaranteeing right to access to public health care to the population under the universal health security
scheme and free of costs medication in case of emergency and accident in the first 72 hours, appointment

of a reform committee on public health care, using health-related information technology to improve and
develop health service system, and enactment of the Control and Promotion of Food Market for Infants and
Small Children and Related Products, B.E. 2560 (2017), for example.
However, development and progress in the area of right to health still faced structural problems and

obstacles in term of access inequality, especially among marginalized people who had no access to health service.
The government also still had to take actions continuously to provide reproductive right through the national
health insurance system for pregnant teenagers, public health care in detention centers and prisons, making

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