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Intimidation and Responses to the Works of Women

Human Rights Defenders

Based on data from Protection International, in the past, many
human rights defenders including women human rights defenders

have continuously been intimidated, harassed, murdered, involuntarily
disappeared and sexually assaulted.
Many of them were charged with judicial cases by the
government and the private sector. Women human rights defenders

are facing court cases due to their righteous engagement in the
promotion and protection of human rights. In Thailand, since the
beginning of the year, 8 out of 10 human rights defenders charged
with criminal cases were women.

The government has pursued national reforms by introducing
laws related to natural resources, land and energy management in
the absence of democratic processes and elected represent tives.
Rights to critique and disapprove of development projects’

impacts may adversely affect human rights, community rights
including environmental rights, people’s rights to information,
freedom of expression, the protection of women human rights
defenders demanding access and participation in the exploitation of

natural resources and energy management, land rights of women etc.
All these are issues that require women involvement. It is
necessary for women to assume a more leadership roles in a context
where they face an unjust division of tasks within the family, gender

discrimination and social prejudice.

การประกาศเกียรติยศผู้หญิงนักปกป้องสิทธิมนุษยชน ประจ�าปี ๒๕๖๒ ๘๓

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