Thai delegation ready for UN review
Justice Permanent Secretary Charnchao Chaiyanukij shows his readiness to lead the Thai delegation to Geneva and present Thailand's human rights record to a UN panel.
A 21-page paper, documenting records in the past four years, will be readed to the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group on May 11, he said.
He said that no questions would be asked during the three-hour session, when reports of independent human rights experts and groups as well as information from other stakeholders would also be presented.
Charnchao said the record contained various human rights issues from workers' rights, access to justice, rights to health services to freedom of expression. Thailand would also highlight the need to maintain capital punishment. Meanwhile, the Kingdom is ready to hear comments and improve the issues in the next four years, he said.
The official also said that the ministry had allocated a Bt60 million budget for scanners. Once installed firstly at the Women's Central Prison, female detainees would not be subject to manual internal inspection.
