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3.6 Human rights study and research of national human rights institutions. As for
As prescribed by law, the NHRCT has duties the framework of cooperation with the ASEAN
and powers to promote, support, and cooperate Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights
with individuals, state and private agencies in a study, (AICHR), the NHRCT together with members of SEANF
research, and dissemination of knowledge and capacity participated in different meetings to discuss

development in the field of human rights, including the the human rights issues of common concern such
provision of assistance or remedy to persons affected the right to development, the right of people with
by human rights violation. In the fiscal year 2020, the disabilities. The NHRCT also cooperated with foreign
NHRCT together with Thailand Development Research government agencies, international and civil society
Institution (TDRI) conducted human rights study and organizations, participating in four workshops including
research under the integrated research and innovation the regional workshop on human rights monitoring for
plan. The topics covered the issues concerning the preparation of human rights situation assessment
natural resources management and sustainable report.
environment. The chronic problem related to

community rights and their local natural resources 3.7.3 Monitoring the government’s implementation
was also studied under the topic “The Relationship of international human rights standards and
between Community Rights and Natural Resources and obligations
Environment under the Constitution of the Kingdom In 2020, the NHRCT submitted two parallel
of Thailand B.E. 2017”. reports to the UN treaty bodies, namely (1) parallel
report on Thailand’s implementation in compliance
3.7 The promotion of international human with the Convention on the Elimination of Racial

rights cooperation and coordination Discrimination (CERD) and (2) parallel report on
Thailand’s implementation in compliance with
3.7.1 Cooperation with other national human rights the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,
institutions Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT).
The cooperation between the NHRCT and
other national human rights institutions continued, 3.7.4 Application for GANHRI re-accreditation
namely the Global Alliances of National Human Rights process
Institutions (GANHRI), the Asia-Pacific Forum of The NHRCT attached importance to fully
national human rights institutions (APF), and the South participate as an independent national human rights

East Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum institution in international fora. As all the concerns
(SEANF). Activities included meetings and seminars of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) under
to share experiences and to discuss the issues of GANHRI were addressed, in 2021 the NHRCT submitted
mutual concern such as the prevention of torture application for re-accreditation to the secretariat
in South East Asia region. of the SCA. Due to the situation of Coronavirus
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the SCA meeting for
3.7.2 Cooperation with UN, international and civil the accreditation review was postponed to

society organizations December.
The NRHCT cooperated with United Nations
agencies through its participation in meetings and
workshops on several topics, especially the role