Dilemma in localising international law in the drafting process of Thailand’s human rights action plan

Wanaporn Techagaisiyavanit and Srisombat Chokprajakchat

Development in Practice, 2021, vol. 31, issue 4, 511-522

Abstract: The Vienna Declaration 1993 is an important instrument that provides a platform for creating a national human rights plan. This paper focuses on the practical aspect of localising international law in the drafting process of Thailand's human rights action plan. It argues that while the drafting process can serve as an argument against the existing criticism concerning the “supra-national” character of international law in the alienation of the local participation, the process also gives rise to the dilemma of public participation, which the paper calls “a national standardisation” on important human rights issues, namely the rights to social welfare of migrant workers and their dependants, and the abolition of capital punishment.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1860195

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