<p>The drafters of the constitution claim that the new organic law requiring removal of the current National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) would make it more credible internationally. The commission chair disagrees. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>On 20 June 2017, Meechai Ruchuphan, chairman of the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC)&nbsp;<a href="http://www.radioparliament.net/parliament/viewNews.php?nId=7794#.WUn2uDPDJxh">told the media</a>&nbsp;of the plan to remove the current commissioners at NHRC.</p>

<p>After its international accreditation was degraded from A to B, Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) faces another round of criticism from an Asian civil society network on human rights over its inaction and partiality.</p> <p>The Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI) on 29 August 2016 issued a statement criticising the NHRC, saying that the NHRC is inactive and partisan. &nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">Contradicting the Minister of Justice, the Thai National Human Rights Commission has concluded that shackling political dissidents is a violation of human rights.</p> <p>What Tingsamitr, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), on Tuesday, 9 August 2016, concluded that the use of shackles by the Department of Corrections (DC) on detained political activists from the New Democracy Movement (NDM) violates human rights and dignity,<a href="http://www.manager.co.th/Politics/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9590000079290">&nbsp;the Manager Online reported</a>.</p>