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implies people who continuously live their lives in, and are bonded to, their homeland, ways of practice
and cultures of their ancestors. Moreover, a fact had been established that there was a total of 80,118 stateless
old persons aging from 60 years old upwards over and 90,966 stateless children and youth who had no document
to prove their personal status in education institutes (G Code children) and children and youth who were born

outside of Thailand but grew up in Thailand who faced the problem related to personal status in Thai laws.
As for transnational population, particularly migrant workers and their followers, the government had
several policies and measures to promote rights and solve problems related to migrant workers, such as
proclamation of a Royal Decree on Bringing Aliens to Work With Employers in the Country, B.E. 2559 (2016),

coming up with an academic cooperation project to solve the problem of unacceptable forms of work in
fishing industry and marine fishing related industry, including policy management, both prove of nationality or
registration of alien labour, resulting in number of alien labour who illegally entered the country going down.
While Thailand has not yet become a state party to the International Convention on the Rights of Migrant

Workers and Their Family Members (ICRMW), several major human rights treaties recognize rights of migrant
workers (transnational workers). When Thailand still needs to depend on transnational labour, especially
from neighbouring countries, there were challenges that affect rights of migrant workers and their followers
in many areas that were the process to prove nationality of transnational labour was difficult to access and

involved much expenses, and unsafe working conditions, access to and use of rights from the social security
system and health insurance system, including inability to establish trade union and to become a member of
trade union committee. Delays also occurred in the establishment of a “mechanism to screen and manage
migration, fugitives and refugees” according to a Resolution of the Council of Ministers on 10 January 2017.
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Part 5 Assessment of human rights situations in 5 issues

There are 5 common issues as follows:

Human Trafficking

Several major international human rights treaties and instruments that Thailand is a state party

recognizing right to life, forbidding torture and forced labour, and protecting persons from economic
and sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is therefore against human rights that Thailand recognizes.
Human trafficking is in several forms, including prostitution or sex trade, forced labour, being forced to
be beggar, and organ transfer, for example. In 2017, there were many cases of human trafficking and

some cases involved many state officials that the US Department of State put Thailand in Tier 2 Watch
List. Thailand, however, had the 3 National Human Rights Plan, B.E. 2557-2561 (2014-2018) and several
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legislations and proclamation were issued to prevent human trafficking and provide protection, such as
the Human Trafficking Suppression Act (3 Issue), B.E. 2560 (2017) and Royal Decree on Administration
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of Works by Aliens, B.E. 2560 (2017). In countries, some cases, the court delivered verdict to punish state
officials and related agencies took actions to prevent and tackle the problem of human trafficking both
domestically and in cooperation with other countries.

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