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Take further steps to ensure a safe and enabling environment for human rights defenders, stop all forms of harassment, violence and intimidation against them and ensure prompt, transparent and independent investigation of all reported cases

End arbitrary detentions, arrests and any acts of harassment against political actors and civil society, including human rights defenders

Ensure the protection of civic space and human rights defenders, including youth, members of civil society, lawyers, media and academics, so that they can operate freely and fully exercise the rights to freedom of expression, including online, and freedom of peaceful assembly and association

In order to ensure the protection of human rights defenders, amend sections 326 to 333 of the criminal code

Expand social welfare initiatives to refugees and asylum seekers that would allow them the right to work

Implement legal measures to ensure proper protection of refugees and asylum seekers

Stop immediately the return of refugees from Myanmar in view of the severe risk that it implies for their lives and integrity in the current circumstances of that country

Ensure that the protection and promotion of the way of life of ethnic groups act is drafted and implemented in accordance with the relevant international human rights law and standards

Classify child, early and forced marriages as forms of sexual exploitation, and eliminate article 277 of the Penal Code in order to prevent girls who are victims of sexual abuse from marrying the perpetrator of the crime in order to condone the penalty

Ensure that children cannot be legally married, especially to the perpetrators of rape and other forms of sexual violence and abuse

Strengthen its efforts to abolish the continued practice of genital circumcision

Ensure that Thai women have the right to pass on their citizenship to their spouses and children

Undertake actions to strengthen women’s access to justice, in particular for rural, indigenous women and those belonging to ethnic and religious minorities and women with disabilities

Develop a national plan to guarantee access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services for all, including regular and irregular migrant workers

Provide health-care services to migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in detention centres

Guarantee the right to access an adequate standard of health services for all, including sex workers

Review existing regulations and practice which restrict freedom of assembly, giving high priority to the freedom of demonstration

Remove the broad range of restrictions on the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression

Ensure that the most severe criminal sentences are not applied to children, including in the context of article 112 of the criminal code, and in line with article 40 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Amend, repeal or restrict the use of legislation that curtails the exercise of rights of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including online, with particular reference to sections 112 and 116 of the criminal code and the computer crime act

Amend article 112 of the criminal code and bring it into line with article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

End arrests and prosecution of children under article 112 and other articles related to security and public order in the criminal code, and ensure the respect of Thailand’s obligations under articles 13, 15 and 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Review and revise laws and regulations that unduly restrict freedom of expression, including online expression, in particular the computer crimes act and the 2005 emergency decree, and eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for lèse-majesté violations

Amend articles 112 and 116 of the criminal code to ensure that the application of the crimes of lèse-majesté and sedition complies with human rights

Amend article 112 of the criminal code on royal defamation to bring it into line with Thailand’s international human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and, as an intermediate step, remove mandatory minimum prison terms for violations of that provision

Review the lèse-majesté law to bring it into conformity with international standards and to prevent it from being used to silence opponents

Review the lèse-majesté law, the computer crime law and the criminal defamation law

Guarantee the protection of the freedoms of opinion and expression, including by amending article 112 of the criminal code

Review the usage of lèse-majesté legislation in its entirety and especially against minors to comply with international human rights standards, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Ensure that the right to freedom of expression and opinion and the freedom of assembly are fully respected and protected, including in the context of a state of emergency