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คณะกรรมการสิทธิมนุษยชนแห่งชาติ
National Human Rights Commission of Thailand 24

most of whom are not part of any welfare system; in providing health services that have not yet
thoroughly responded to the illness of the elderly; and the lack of clear measures to prevent abuse,
neglect or violation of the elderly.

Persons with disabilities have had obstacles in accessing a number of rights under the Promotion

and Development of Quality of life of Persons with Disabilities Act, B.E. 2550 (2017) and the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), particularly in education, employment and access to
public transport services. This is due to the lack of equipment and facilities necessary to access rights and
enjoy livelihoods by being part of society as intended by the CRPD. However, in 2019, the government

has shown its will to promote rights and improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities on many
occasions. It also engaged persons with disabilities and the private sector in government implementation.

The government has made efforts continuously to promote and protect the rights of women.
However, some efforts have yet to yield obvious results, such as in the issue of domestic violence, where
the statistics of women who were abused still remained close to the same level as of the previous

year. Furthermore, there has been no measure in place to solve the problems at the root cause. In the
issue of elimination of discrimination on the basis of sex, a revision has been made to the curriculum
regarding gender diversity and sexual wellbeing in order to create a better understanding of the issues
among children and youths.

As for those with legal status and rights problems, the government’s continuous efforts to regularize
migrant workers of 3 nationalities have provided them with a regular status and rights protection under

the labour laws. A new legislation has been enacted to provide protection for workers in the fishery
sector. Still, problems have been found in practice regarding access to welfare. The government has
expressed its intention in international forums to completely eliminate statelessness by 2024. It has tried

to overcome obstacles to facilitate stateless people to access the citizenship process. However, there
are more than 400,000 stateless people still waiting in line. As for asylum seekers, significant progress
has been made in repatriating people who fled from fighting in Myanmar through cooperation with
Myanmar government and UNHCR. In addition, the government has enacted the Prime Minister Office’s
Regulation on the screening of aliens who are in the Kingdom and cannot return home, 2019, to ensure

that those fleeing from persecutions would not be repatriated to danger and could receive appropriate
assistance. Relevant agencies have worked together to lay down practical guideline to stop detaining
migrant children in detention centers. Efforts have also been made to develop a screening system for

illegal immigrants in order to identify refugees and provide appropriate protection.
Regarding the situation of human rights of these various groups mentioned above, the NHRC’s

key recommendations include: to develop measures to support families to take care of children so that
children are safe and have suitable development according to their age; to have measures to prevent