What to research and what to develop under the Legal Research and Advocacy Project on the Rights of the Child and Disadvantaged People in Tak Province and Other Border Communities of Thailand ??

This Legal Research and Advocacy Project is initiated to be not only a study to obtain knowledge, but also an “action research” to solve disadvantage problems of the target groups of the study. Furthermore, this Project has its ultimate aim to propose a strategy to systematically and sustainably address these disadvantage problems of transnational children and their family by doing a test-case and developing a prototype of legal advocacy procedure for each case. Under the Project, disadvantaged children and their family in these four situations are examined:

1. Children and youth in places for health and well-being

(i.e. hospitals, educational institutes and families);

2. Children and youth in economic spaces

(i.e. economic market and workplaces);

3. Children and youth in their own family's habitation

(i.e. forest, national park and others);

4. Children and youth in high risk areas for human rights violation

(i.e. immigration detention center, juvenile observation center, prison, temporary shelters and other high risk areas).