Legal Problems related to Nationality and Rights of People Residing in Thailand
Agenda
Receiving of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn lead by NHRCT’s Chairperson accompanied by the Commissioner together with the organizing committee to the seminar room.
NHRCT’s Chairperson offered the report to Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn addressed the opening speech and listened to lectures
Inspiration Message:
Mr. Grisada Boonrach, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior
“Statelessness situation and Thailand’s solutions”
Presentation: “Problems related to nationality and their solution: lesson from Europe”
Prof. Jean-Pierre Theron, Universite de Toulouse
Mr. Henning Glaser, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance
Exhibition Visit:
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visited the exhibition in parallel with Mrs. Tuenjai Deetes, National Human Rights Commissioner
Panel Discussion moderated by: Mrs. Tuenjai Deetes: “Problems and guidelines on amending personal status law in Thailand: Nationality Law, Immigration Law, and Civil Registration Law”
Representative from the Department of Provincial Administration
Representative from Office of the Security Council
Representative from the Immigration Bureau
Representative from Special Branch Royal Thai Police
Ms. Darunee Paisanpanichkul
Discussion with Q&A
Report
On 10 July 2017, the seminar “Legal Problems Related to Nationality and Rights of People Residing in Thailand” was held at the Sukosol Hotel in Bangkok. The seminar was organized by the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, the Ministry of Interior of Thailand, the Thai Committee for Refugees Foundation, the French Embassy Bangkok, and CPG.
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presided over the seminar and delivered the opening speech. The Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, Mr. What Tingsamitr, offered the Commission’s report to her Royal Highness.
Mr. Grisada Boonrach, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, then gave an inspirational presentation on the “Statelessness situation and Thailand’s solutions”, outlining the present legal framework of nationality and civil registration law in Thailand, and highlighting current reform projects of the government.
After that, the two keynote speakers, Professor Jean-Pierre Théron, Université des Toulouse 1, and Mr. Henning Glaser, Director of the CPG, gave presentations on “Problems related to nationality and their solutions: Lessons from Europe”. Professor Théron emphasized current challenges for French and European immigration and nationality law due to the refugee situation in Europe. Mr. Glaser presented the German legal framework of nationality law and outlined the ways and procedures of acquiring German citizenship.
Then, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visited an exhibition about the situation of statelessness and possible solutions together with Mrs. Tuenjai Deetes, Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand.
In the afternoon, a panel discussion on “Problems and guidelines on amending the personal status law in Thailand: Nationality law, immigration law and civil registration law” was organized. The panelists were representatives from the Department of Provincial Administration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Office of the Security Council, the Immigration Bureau, and the Special Branch of the Royal Thai Police.
The panel discussion was followed by a Q&A session.
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