Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is forwarding an announcement about a programme to be held at the National Human Rights Commission in Bangkok this Wednesday, March 28, on forced disappearances in Thailand. We encourage anyone to attend if they are able to do so.
To see details of some forced disappearances in Thailand documented by the AHRC, visit the WHERE DID THEY GO? page on the AHRC’s site calling for the end to the emergency regulations in the south: http://thailand.ahrchk.net/edecree
Please also see the recent report by Human Rights Watch, It was like suddenly my son no longer existed.
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Seminar on Enforced Disappearances in Thailand and the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 13.00-16.45
National Human Rights Commission Building
13:00 Registration
13:15 Opening remarks by Mr. Vasant Panich, National Human Rights Commissioner
13:30 Enforced disappearances in Thailand: North, south and northeast
15:00 Introduction to the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
— Somchai Homlaor, Chairperson, Human Rights Committee, Lawyers Council of Thailand
15:20 Break
15.30 The missing persons centre and forced disappearances
— Khunying Dr Porntip Rojanasunan, Acting Director General, Central Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice
16:00 Open discussion and recommendations for Thailand to ratify the convention
16:45 Close
Co-organized by
1. National Human Rights Commission, contact punpan@nhrc.co.th
2. Working Group on Justice for Peace, contact noinoipornpen@gmail.com
Thank you for your attendance.
Urgent Appeals Programme
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) (ahrchk@ahrchk.org)
