Human rights law in Thailand

[Maestro]

1. Does Thailand have its own human rights law?
2. Is Thailand a signatory to any international convention on human rights?
3. Does Thailand have any law at all that forbids the punishment of one person for an offence committed by another person? (Could find nothing in the Criminal Code)

[opalred]

bit deep for me mate 

but it needs explaining to my wife

[thaihome]

http://www.thailawforum.com/database1/national-human-right-3.html

 

TH

[Maestro]

9 hours ago, thaihome said:

http://www.thailawforum.com/database1/national-human-right-3.html

 

TH

 

Thank you. The National Human Rights Commission Act B.E. 2542 (1999) is about setting up this type of commission and how the commission should carry out its work. It says nothing about individual human rights of the people.

 

It gives, hovever, this definition:

 

Section 3.  In this Act:

 

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"human rights" means human dignity, tight, liberty and equality of people which are guaranteed or protected under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand or under Thai laws or under treaties which Thailand has obligations to comply

 

Unfortunately, his leaves my three questions in the OP unanswered.

 

National Human Rights Commission Act B.E. 2542 (1999).pdf

[Maestro]

The Constitution of 2007, ie the last Constitution before the current interim Constitution, had the following on human rightas:

 

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Section 82. The State shall promote friendly relations with other countries and adopt the principle of non-discrimination and shall comply with human rights conventions in which Thailand is a party thereto as well as international obligations concluded with other countries and international organisations.

 

Again nothing about specific rights.

[thaihome]

6 hours ago, Maestro said:

The Constitution of 2007, ie the last Constitution before the current interim Constitution, had the following on human rightas:

 

 

Again nothing about specific rights.

Can you give an example of any countries' constitution that includes specific "human rights" laws? The US has a bill of rights which are the first 10 ammendments to the Constitution laying out the legal rights, but there is no mention of "human rights" as that phrase is a fairly recent construct.

TH  

 

https://www.google.co.th/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.rlpd.go.th/rlpdnew/images/rlpd_1/2556/thaigov_Plan3/10plan3.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwit0L-I98rRAhVJN48KHTrOA0kQFgg0MAk&usg=AFQjCNE1-WmMxKzZQaBWMql6c5s6BKQAwA&sig2=cPyB94ld48t-1xPv4PJrcA

 

TH 

[Maestro]

No, not the constitution, but a country's human rights law, if it has any, or an international human rights convention to which the country is a signatory.

 

For Thailand, the last real Constitution mentioned "human rights conventions in which Thailand is a party thereto as well as international obligations concluded with other countries and international organisations", but my web search brings up no results about any such convention or obligations concluded with other countries or international organisations. This is the reason for my three questions in the OP.

 

At the moment I am interested in the basic human right than one person should not be punished for an offence committed by another person. If Thailand does not have a human rights law and is not a signatory to any human rights convention, you would expect to find this particular right to be mentioned in at least one Thai law and the most logical would seem to be the Criminal Code but if it is there I cannot find it.