Thailand needs to amend domestic laws to prepare for the ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Forced Disappearance.
The government under Abhisit Vejjajiva said that Thailand would ratify the convention to raise the standard of human rights protection and to end impunity on enforced disappearance. Last year, the country acceded to the UN Convention Against Torture.
But a prominent human rights defender, Angkana Neelapaijit, chairperson of Justice for Peace Foundation, said that Thailand does not have a good record on forced disappearance. She pointed out that there are reportedly over 90 cases of forced disappearance in the past two decades. "But about 54 cases were reported to the United Nations," she said. There were no progress on these cases.
The Nation
