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1. Set up or assign an agency to administrate the human rights issues abroad that

involve Thai people or Thai business.

2. The constitution should be amended to recognize all the human rights up to

international standard.

3. NHRC should be involve in any issues regarding the interpretation of the wordings

of the constitution that relates to business and human rights, and

4. NHRC should advocate all government agencies to conform with Article 26 of the

constitution stating that all new laws and regulations must provide adequate
reason for restriction of human rights.

Apart from the gap in the constitution, this research also studies human rights in sub

categories by dividing business and human rights into 9 categories including, 1) shareholder
rights, 2) labor rights, 3) supply-chain related rights, 4) community, land, and environmental

rights, 5) rights related to outward and inward cross-country investment, 6) consumer rights,

7) rights for the vulnerable groups, 8) human rights defender, and 9) human rights issues for
state owned enterprises.

In the broad sense, government officials still focus only on the laws and regulations

which limited scope of implementation and neglect practical implementation that lead to

effective outcomes. The issue causes a massive gap as the actual problem is more complex
and require more flexible approach to solve the core of the issue. For this reason, the

implementation of laws and regulations should focus on the final outcomes, that is, their
ability to prevent human rights violation.

For the remedy pillar, the penalty by law should be amended to disincentivize
undesirable behavior. Duration of justice procedure should be accommodated by providing

more supportive mechanisms such as fair negotiation mechanism, remedy fund, as well as,

improving more protective mechanisms for witness and human rights defender.

The results of the analysis on each categories can be summarized into a table as

follows:

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