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Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik

- Sub-Commission on Education and Development,
- Sub-Commission on Human Rights Education,
- Sub-Commission on Health and Environment,
- Sub-Commission on Children, Youth, and Family.
Group 4: Coordinating sub-Commission on Natural Resource Base:
- Sub-Commission on Technology and Intellectual Property,
- Sub-Commission on Energy, Industry, and Environment,
- Sub-Commission on Tropical Forests and Bio-Diversity,
- Sub-Commission on Marine Resources,
- Sub-Commission on Land and Water.
On top of all these, there are also other sub-Commissions dealing
with specific cases on wide-ranging issues such as refugees, ethnic groups,
HIV patients, delinquents, labour, land disputes, including disputes arising
from the public projects like express ways, electric plants, gas pipelines,
etc. Needless to say, all the sub-Commissions and subject matters involved
are closely inter-related. That is why there needs to be grouping of the
sub-Commissions concerned for coordination, and of course the whole
thing comes under the NHRC’s ultimate decision and responsibility.
The first tier of networking as described contains within itself
the second tier, as most sub-Commission members, if not all, have their
own professional or civil society networks to begin with, such as
Universities, Law Society of Thailand, the NGO Coordinating Committee
on Rural Development (NGO-CORD), Civil Liberty Union Association, Human
Rights Coordination Committee, Women’s Rights Groups, Youth and
Children Rights Groups, Forum Asia, etc. So while the first-tier tripartite
networking directly takes part in the process of decision making, the
second one could be called upon for consultation and advice on the matters
at issue, or even help in investigation of specific cases with a certain degree
of authority.
As for the rest of networking, it is still in progress. As a matter of
fact, this is intended to serve as the open-end and built-in process of the

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