Civil Society and Human Rights Coalition of Thailand (CHRC), comprised of more than 50 organizations, institutions and groups, is urging the Thai government to take a serious decision in response to the 172 recommendations made by international community other state members of the United Nations Human Rights Council - Working Group on UPR on October 5-7, 2011 in Geneva.

A written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status

The Asian Legal Resource Center wishes to bring the importance of continued action to end enforced disappearance in Thailand to the attention of the Human Rights Council. While the signing of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance on 9 January 2012 by the Government of Thailand is a positive step, the Convention must be ratified and domestic laws must be passed and implemented if its provisions are to be made concrete. As disappearance is one form of violence routinely used by Thai state security forces with impunity against citizens, the opportunity to secure accountability represented by the ratification and full implementation of the Convention is significant.

All press and public are invited to observe the "NLA Sit-in" trial, the case of which stemmed from direct actions by a thousand strong activists in 2007 against the rush to pass repressive laws by the National Legislative Assembly, installed after the 2006 coup. The act of climbing over the fence of the Parliament buildings in Bangkok by the protesters has led to charges being pressed against them by the Office of Senate Secretariat. Among the ten activists joining the protest and having to face the charges including Mr.

On 17 February 2012, Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapa offered two observations, both ill-founded, unfounded and confounded. Despite an international body stating Thailand was a great place to launder money, the general says “Ain’t so!” As well, despite Sukumvit Soi 71 being littered with bomb debris and shadows of cleaned-away blood, he also insists that there is no concrete evidence that the Valentine’s Day Iranian bomber attacks were acts of terror.