Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply THA 2/2015 19/02/2015 Thailand JUA Business enterprises; Environment; Food; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Human rights defenders; Summary executions; Toxic waste; 24/02/2015 Allegations of threats against, incommunicado detention, attempted killing and killings of several environmental and land rights defenders, as well as threats against 02/04/2015 community members. According to the information received, on 30 November 2014, Mr. Pitan Thongpanang, who had been leading a campaign against a mining company operating the Barite mine in Nonpitan District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, was shot dead by an unknown armed man. On 3 December 2014, Mr. Somsuk Kohkrang, a land rights activist in Muang District, Krabi Province, was shot dead by an unknown armed man. On 29 December 2014, the house of Mr. Suwit Jeh-Soh, a community activist and school director in Mueng Ta Kau Village, Phattalung Province, was attacked by unknown armed individuals with multiple rounds of gunfire. On 3 February 2015, Mr. Pianrat Boonrit, a prominent land rights activist from the Premsub community in Chaiburi District, Surat Thani Province, while complying with a summons he had received to present himself at Vibhavadi Rangsit Military Camp, was detained and held incommunicado for two days. On 11 February 2015, Mr. Chai Bunthonglek, a community land rights activist from the Khlong Sai Pattana Community in Chaiburi District, Surat Thani Province, was shot dead by two unidentified armed men. Two previous communications concerning killings of environmental and land rights defenders were sent to the Government of Thailand; on 9 January 2013, see A/HRC/23/51, case no. THA 1/2013; and on 2 April 2013, see A/HRC/24/21, case no. THA 3/2013. TGO 1/2015 19/02/2015 Togo AL Discrimination against women; Allégations de dispositions discriminatoires à l’égard des femmes dans la législation togolaise sur la nationalité. Selon de nouvelles informations reçues, la législation togolaise continue de nier le droit des femmes togolaises à passer leur nationalité à leur mari d’origine étrangère. Bien que le Groupe de Travail apprécie les informations détaillées et fournies par le Gouvernement dans sa réponse à la communication en date du 14 novembre 2014, ref. A/HRC/28/85, TGO 1/2014, le Groupe de Travail sollicite des informations supplémentaires sur la réforme législative en cours visant à abroger cette législation. A/HRC/29/50 62 Date Type

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