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Executive Summary

UN Human Rights Council provides a framework for business and human rights on 3

pillars:

1. Protect – Government has a duty to protect against human rights violation from

the third party

2. Respect – Business has a duty to respect human rights

3. Remedy – victim of human rights violation should be able to access a remedy

process in the forms of either justice system or non-justice system such as a

conciliation process.

Due to the fact that the framework gives two primary duties for the Government to

proceed: Pillar 1 (protect) and Pillar 3 (remedy). There is a knowledge gap of current policies
on the two pillars that need to be examined.

National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRC) understands the need and
has provided the funding for this research on “National Baseline Assessment on Business

and Human Rights: Policy, Law and Measure related to investment of Thailand,” in order to

achieve full understandings of the gaps of those policy, law and measure with respect to the
two pillars of the UNGP (pillar 1, protect; and pillar 3, remedy). The NHRC can use the

knowledge obtained by this study to observe current business and human rights-related
issues, to monitor present and forthcoming situation of business and human rights, and to

provide the support on business and human rights protect and remedy systems.

This research uses a Gap analysis approach to assess the gap between the actual

protect and remedy system (policy, law and measure) and the desired protect and remedy

system that lead to policy recommendations.

Due to the fact that Thailand has too many rules and regulations involved (for

example, the number of current rules and regulations is higher than 100,000, which prevents
the gap anaylsis on every rules and regulations that are in place), this research aims to

support the NHRC in evaluating the progress of the implementation of the National Action
Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAPs). By focusing on the current important issues

through five criteria that narrow down the issue: 1) high frequency issues 2) high impact

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