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Thailand Action Plan

➤ Judges agree that the issues that they saw during the field trip must be resolved
➤ Recently, Thailand has new laws on VAW, trafficking and child protection. Also Thailand

have ratified ICCPR, CRC as well as CEDAW to comply with international standards of human
rights. However, there are still problems with new laws especially the ones made during the
military coup because there was not enough time to draft. In addition, we have more difficulties
in enforcing such law in practice.
➤ Thus, we proposed programmes that encourage judges to have more understanding in
these issues.
➤ As judiciary is a passive organization that wait for people to come, improving peopleûs access
to justice is sometimes difficult to judiciary itself. Yet, there is a strong need to break down the
wall that blocks the way to court rooms. In order to do that we need to form a network sharing

resources and experiences.
➤ We planned to have more seminars, workshops, and conferences. But before organizing
seminars and conferences, firstly, we have to clarify the concept of gender equality and
gender justice. We might explore conceptual framework of gender justice through researches.
➤ Second issue is how to implement CEDAW effectively. Because Thailand has dual system,
it is often hard to transfer international laws into domestic laws. Thus, we are willing to join
international forums on CEDAW implementation to see how others can tackle this issue.

➤ Everything that is discussed in this workshop is very new to us. We need more resources on
CEDAW and how to convince judges to learn about gender justice.
➤ While discussing, certain terminologies were not in agreement.
➤ We might need to elaborate more on this long-term action plan.

Action Plan in Details

Pilot research Why ■ There is still a debate among judicial members, womenûs

activists, academics on the terminology of gender bias
What ■ Survey: understanding of çGender Equality/Gender Biasé
Conceptual framework on what gender bias is
Where ■ Bangkok
Who ■ First instance, Appeals, supreme court
How ■ Questionnaire, Interview
When ■ 2008(6 months)