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document provides the conceptual base for developing the countries’ domestic laws

including Thailand’s.
Currently, there are 9 international treaties under UN concerning international
measures on human rights, 7 of which Thailand has ratified as a member country [from
(1) – (7)]: (1) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), (2) International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), (3) Convention on the

Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), (4) Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC), (5) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD), (6) Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading

Treatment or Punishment (CAT), (7) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD), (8) International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance (CED), and (9) Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrants Workers
and Member of their Families (CMW)
Besides, there are 188 treaties on the labor rights by International Labor Organization

(ILO) under ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Thailand ratified
14 treaties as a member country.
In ASEAN, there are 2 agreements on the older persons: Kuala Lumpur Declaration on

Ageing: Empowering Older Persons in ASEAN and (2) Brunei Darussalam Declaration on
Strengthening Family Institution: Caring for Elderly.
UN and ILO international treaties specify the human rights protection in general from
discrimination or specify that of women or children or labor. The treaties do not specify
directly that of older persons. Thus in 2010, UN established the Open-ended Working Group

(OWGA) to study the situations and gaps in the existing international measures concerning
older persons in order to provide the measures for the up-coming Convention on the Rights
of Older Persons. OWGA has organized 9 sessions of its annual meeting. The 10 Session will
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be held in 2019. The issues of non-discrimination and violence, neglect and abuse were the
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focal areas of discussion in the 8 Session Meeting in 2017.
2) As a member country of UN, Thailand has committed accordingly to the
obligations under the ratified international treaties by establishing or amending the country’s
laws. In relating to the rights of the older persons, the government established

(1) Declaration of the Thai Older Persons of 1999 to protect the rights of older persons
towards good quality of life, (2) The Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2017 to
eliminate unfair discrimination against older persons in Section 27 and in Section 48 to