THAILAND: Lessons Learned from the Disappearance of Sombath Somphone and Somchai Neelapaijit 

Somchai Neelapaijit Memorial Fund, Justice for Peace Foundation, Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliances (TERRA), Amnesty International Thailand will host a panel discussion entitled “Human Rights in ASEAN: Lessons Learned from the Disappearance of Sombath Somphone and Somchai Neelapaijit.” The event takes place on March 27, 2013, from 9.30-12.00, at Jitti Tingsapat Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University (Tha Phrachan Campus). The panelists comprise Angkhana Neelapaijit and Witoon Permpongsacharoen. Moreover, a statement by Mr Somphone’s wife will be read during the event.

The objective of the event is to raise awareness about human rights violation in the region, enforced disappearance, the two cases themselves and to commemorate 9th anniversary disappearance of Somchai in March. Moreover, the event organizers want to send out messages to ASEAN governments that they could not only focus on the cooperation on economics while ignoring the human rights violation in each countries. The cases of Sombath and Somchai show the failure of the rule of law, transparency and accountability of ASEAN.

**interpretation from Thai to English is available.

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Schedule

Human Rights in ASEAN:

Lessons Learned from the Disappearance of Sombath Somphone and Somchai Neelapaijit

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, from 9.30-12.00,

at Jitti Tingsapat Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University (Tha Phrachan Campus)

9.30-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Statement of Shui-Meng Ng, wife of Sombaht Somphone
10.00-11.45
Panel discussion

Angkhana Neelapaijit, president of Peace for Justice Foundation

Sriprapha Petcharamesree lecturer at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies,

Mahidol University and former Thai Representative to the ASEAN

Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

Witoon Permpongsacharoen, environmentalist who used to work with Sombath and Director

of Mekong Energy and Ecology Network

Moderated by Pratubjit Neelapaijit

11:45-12:00 Questions from the audience

**interpretation from Thai to English is available.

Document Type : Forwarded Press Release
Document ID : AHRC-FPR-019-2013
Countries : Thailand,
Issues : Extrajudicial killings, Human rights defenders, Judicial system, Rule of law,