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Executive Summary

The assessment report on Thailand’s human rights situation in 2022 is prepared in accordance
with the duties and powers of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT). Information
on developments of a wide-range of human rights issues has been gathered and analyzed to identify

problems and obstacles. The assessment is then made against the rights guaranteed in the Constitution,
national laws and treaties to which Thailand is party and obligated to comply with. The report also makes
recommendations to the government and concerned agencies on ways to promote and protect
human rights on specific issues. The content of the report is divided into four parts as follows:

Human Rights Situation in Specific Exercise of the freedom of assembly
1 Circumstances in 2022

Human rights situation under the There were fewer political demonstrations

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic than in the previous year, and most of them were
The government has made efforts to provide peaceful. The nationwide state of emergency

for and ensure better access to medical treatment was lifted on 1 October 2022, allowing people to
and COVID-19 vaccines compared to 2021, resulting exercise their freedom of assembly under normal
in the lower number of deaths from the disease. laws while political demonstrations in designated

The government continued to protect people’s areas were permitted according to the
right to an adequate standard of living through announcements of the Bangkok Metropolitan
assistance and remedial measures for different Administration. Moreover, the verdicts by the First
groups while the economy had not yet fully Instance Courts in some cases affirmed the exercise
recovered from the pandemic. However, only of freedom of peaceful assembly. Nevertheless,

a small number of young children and older persons there was still prosecution related to public
received booster doses of the vaccines, and some assembly for offences under the Emergency Decree
groups had difficulties accessing the government’s on Public Administration in Emergency Situation

remedial measures. In addition, follow–up effort is B.E. 2548 and the crackdown against a group
required to bring children who had dropped out of called Ratsadon Yoot APEC 2022 (Civilians stop
school back into the education system. The government APEC 2022). The NHRCT, therefore, emphasizes that
should draw lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic the government respects the freedom of peaceful
to prepare for possible future crises. assembly and instructs officials to perform their
duties during public assembly in accordance with
international standards, to be cautious in prosecuting
those who exercise their rights and freedom, and to

take into account the safety of children as a priority.

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