Human rights in Thailand

For book, see Human Rights in Thailand (book).

Thailand was among the first countries to sign the United Nations' (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, and seemed committed to upholding its stipulations. However, rights of the Thai people within the nation have historically been infringed, offenders committing crimes with impunity. From 1977 to 1988, Amnesty International (AI) reported that there were whitewashed cases of more than one thousand alleged arbitrary detentions, fifty forced disappearances, and at least one hundred instances of torture and extrajudicial killings. In the years since, AI has demonstrated that little has changed, and Thailand's overall human rights record remains problematic. A 2019 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report expanded on AI's overview as it focuses specifically on the case of Thailand. When the newly formed government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha assumed power in mid-2019, Thailand's human rights record showed no signs of change.

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