Birth Registration
l Committee for the Protection and
Promotion of Child Rights (Burma) l Project
Activities in Mae Sot l Progress l Future
Goals l
The
Committee for the Protection and Promotion of Child Rights(Burma) Project
Project
Activities in Mae Sot
The Committee for the Protection and Promotion of
Child Rights (Burma) (CPPCR) is currently conducting local campaigns
within the Burmese
communities, to raise the awareness of a child's
right to an identity, which is the first right for a child. This is being
done by:
- Distributing
information on child rights, through pamphlet distributions at
local and schools and at local Health Services.
- By promoting and
conducting human rights education workshops amongst TBAs, parents
and local community leaders.
Documents have now been drafted and approved for the implementation
of the birth registration and the recording process of Burmese children.
This documentation and registration is being carried out for Burmese
children 2 days a week, at the Mae Tao clinic in Maesot.
CPPCR documentation and registration teams have now been established
and teams now regularly visit local communities, where parent are unable
to attend the Mae Tao clinic.
Promoting the data collecting processes is being carried out,
by regular visits to various Burmese and ethnic communities and pro-democracy
organisations in the Maesot region, and to refugee camps.
Project Progress
1. The setting up of a birth registration centre
in Maesot in May 2003
The centre has now drafted a standard form of birth
documentation (birth
certificate) which has been approved after extensive consultation by
Thai and Burmese NGO’s and Lawyers.
2. The conducting of a public ceremony to
promote birth registration at the Mae Tao clinic in Maesot on the 2
August, 2003
Parents were invited
to attend and receive their child’s birth registration certificates
from Dr Cynthia Maung at the ceremony. Local dignitaries, community leaders
and opposition leaders were invited to the ceremony, to evidence the
granting of birth registration certificates to Burmese children – a
mile stone in the war to reduce statelessness of Burmese children in
Thailand.
3. Registration of Children
More than 3,000 hundred children have now (June
2005) been registered by the CPPCR as
a direct result
of an
intensive
campaign conducted to promote and to implement the birth registration
of Burmese children, in the Maesot area.
Future Goals
1. To continue campaigns and workshops amongst the local Burmese
communities, promoting the birth registration process.
2. To establish target areas, and to set up small
unit network in each targeted location for the continued implementation
of
the birth
documentation and the registration process.
3. To establish and to ensure data safety and security,
through secure data systems for the protection of data and the privacy
of individuals.
4. To promote the Convention on the Rights of the
Child through education workshops for members of the CPPCR, who will
be properly equipped
to
conduct Convention on the Rights of the Child
workshops
within the Burmese communities.
5. To strive to establish the CPPCR as an accredited
professional organization, with the relevant Thai authorities, the UNICEF,
UN organisations,
local, regional and international NGO’s and Burmese NGO’s
and organisations. To enter into partnership with these organisations
where appropriate in the best interest of the child.
6. To extend the activities of the CPPCR to all the
Burmese communities in Thailand, and all the IDP areas in Burma.
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