มาตรการทางกฎหมายในการคุ้มครองสิทธิเด็กทางครอบครัว / วิศิษฎ์ ฉัตรกริช = Legal measures for the protections of child rights in the family / Wisit Chutkrich
This research aims to study legal measures for the protection of child rights in the family in Thailand. The research is conducted by studying domestic laws in comparison with the Convention of the Rights of the Child 1989 in four areas, namely the right to survival, the rights to development, the right to obtain legal protection, and the right to participate in family affairs. The research finds that Thailand had legal measures for the protection of child rights before it signed the Convention with three reservations. The first reservation concerns the right to have Thai nationality; the second concerns the right to have refugee status; and the third concerns the right of the children from minority groups to obtain education about there own culture and language. Although Thailand has legal measures for the protection of child rights, the legal measures to implement the right to survival, the right to obtain legal protection, and the right to participate in family affairs are not enforced efficiently and effectively because of two reasons. The first reason is the weak law enforcement and the second reason is the obsolete laws and regulations. There has been an attempt to strengthen the law enforcement and to reform the laws and regulations. However, that attempt still has not led to a tangible outcome. By means of a comparative study, the research proposes recommendations for reforming both legal measures for the protection of child rights, including statutes, decrees, and regulations, and the nation’s social policy relating to child rights.