UPR Sexual Rights Database

Maternal mortality remained very high in the Muslim-majority area in the SBP. [Para 44]

Other health priorities that have gained the attention of the Government are: ... teen pregnancy, which is being addressed in part by ministerial regulations, tasking educational and other establishments in actively preventing and addressing the issue among employees and students who are adolescents; breast cancer, by actively pursuing efforts to educate women aged 30 to 70 years on conducting self-examinations; [Para 38]

Continue efforts aimed at combatting violence against women and girls, establishing gender equality, and supporting women's empowerment.

JS29 noted that Thailand’s policies regulating safe abortion were not aligned with international human rights standards. JS22 highlighted obstacles to access safe abortion in a context of inadequate legislation and a patriarchal culture. [Para 44]

Continue to work at the provincial level to execute memorandums of understanding to combat violence against women and children.

Nevertheless, Thailand needs to accelerate its efforts to achieve remaining targets, including ... improving the maternal health in remote areas ... [Para 40]

While the Act (Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act (1996)) treated prostitution of children as an aggravating offence imposing harsher penalties for younger children, it did not exempt child victims of prostitution from penalties under the law. Furthermore, Section 34 of the Act and Section 33 of the Anti-Trafficking Act, a judge was permitted to order a child victim to be confined in a Protection and Occupational Development Centre (PODC) for his 'rehabilitation' for a period of up to two years, which discourages child victims from reporting and has led to many child victims running away during the criminal process. [Para 25]

Provide increased educational opportunities to girls to discourage early marriages. [Para 35; CEDAW]

The protection of the rights of HIV infected persons has been addressed in the National AIDS Strategic Plan (2007–2011). Care and treatment for HIV/AIDS is already covered under the Universal Healthcare Coverage Scheme, in accordance with conditions specified by the Ministry of Public Health. A monthly allowance of 500 Baht is provided by the Government to persons with HIV/AIDS as a means to promote their quality of life. Thailand is also promoting access to treatment for disadvantaged or other marginalized groups, such as prison inmates and migrant workers, with financial support from other sources such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Thailand continues to promote positive attitudes among public officials, service providers and members of the community toward persons infected by HIV/AIDS so that they are able to access services on an equal basis and can live in the community without being stigmatized and discriminated against. [Para 51]

Train public and educational institutions on human rights, with emphasis on the elimination of violence against women and girls, especially those from indigenous communities and ethnic and religious minorities.

Continue with legislative and policy measures for the progressive realization of gender equality, and to address gender-based discrimination.

The HR Committee recommended that Thailand redouble its efforts to prevent and address all forms of violence against women, including by: encouraging the reporting of such violence, establishing an effective complaints mechanism ... and if [perpetrators are] convicted, punished with appropriate sanctions; ensuring access to effective remedies and means of protection to victims; ... [Para 47]