First National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (2019–2022).

This First National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP) is initiated by the Royal Thai Government (RTG) from the realization of the duty to respond to human rights violations, including but not limited to the impacts that business enterprises have on the fulfilment of human rights. The NAP is formulated to function as part of an implementation framework for relevant sectors that covers the prevention, mitigation and provision of interventions for human rights violations arising from the business sector.
Four key priority areas are identified, which include: 1) Labor; 2) Community, Land, Natural Resource and Environment; 3) Human Rights Defenders; 4) Cross Border Investment and Multinational Enterprises. The NAP provides the analysis on the overview of the business and human rights situations, challenges and action plans in which activities, responsible agencies, timelines, indicators, and linkages with the National Strategy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are explicitly elaborated.
Activities proposed in the Plan include: Consider measures of social protection for migrant workers, especially agricultural and fishery workers, seasonal employees, and domestic workers; Disseminate knowledge and understanding about the Gender Equality Act 2015 and mechanisms under the Act to adjust people’s attitudes in society to understand and accept gender equality; Training on knowledge about legal rights, labour protection, labour rights, occupation safety, and social security for labourers, which includes migrant workers; Consider bringing measures or labour laws which are applied to the fishery sector to be used in the supervision of labour conditions in other industrial sectors such as agriculture and construction in which many migrant workers are hired; etc.