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A. Origin, Composition and determine their purposes on basis of
powers of the Thai NHRC çdemocracy, right to development and human
rightsé paralleling with expectation of roles of
1. The Thai NHRC originated from
independent agencies which have mandates to
peopleûs expectation and purpose of 1997
investigate violation and to protect peopleûs
Constitution.
rights and liberties.
1997 Constitution of the Kingdom of
The Thai NHRC is one of the independent
Thailand was peopleûs constitution which
agencies that was enacted in the 1997 Constitution.
originated from peopleûs struggling and
It has a main mandate to promote and protect
demanding and from collected lessons learned
human rights and has the 1999 act of the Thai
from peopleûs struggling in Thai political history.
NHRC to support its work.
The significance of the Constitution was peopleûs
participation from around the country. The The Thai NHRC has 11 commissioners
selected from the basis of diversity, gender
Constitution had purposes and main contents
equality and NGOs, the minimum age of 35,
as follows:
serving a term of 6 years for only one term.
1) The Constitution had provisions on There was a Selective Committee system to
promoting and protecting humanûs dignity and select 22 persons and the Senate selected 11
rights and liberties of people widely including persons and proposed to the King for appointment
fundamental rights and liberties of individual
The Thai NHRC has 5 female and
and communityûs rights which was new
6 male, their education background from
dimension of participation to manage national
grade 4 to Professor, working background
resource and environmental base. The Provision
as NGOs and high ranking public officials,
on decentralization and provision on independent
age range from 35- more than 70 year old.
agencies to mobilize actual rights and liberties
2. Mandates and Powers of the Thai
be visible.
NHRC
2) The Constitution had purpose to The Thai NHRC has 3 main
strengthen peopleûs politics paralleling with mandates are as follows:
politicianûs politics in representative system. That
1) to examine and report the commission
was to create peopleûs participation in planning
or omission of acts which violate human rights
and managing resource base and to create or which do not comply with obligations under
peopleûs power to investigate governmental international treaties relating to human rights to
power exercises in all levels. which Thailand is a party, and propose appropriate
remedial measures to the person or agency
3) Decentralization to communities and
committing or omitting such acts for taking
local administrative organizations.
action. In the case where it appears that no
That was peopleûs demanding for action has been taken as proposed, the
rights and liberties to protect and create their Commission shall report to the National
strength in order to be aware of their rights to Assembly for further proceedingé;

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