This website documents the
plight of Burmese stateless children in Thailand and provides information
on the Mae Sot Birth Registration project.
Statelessness is
a growing problem throughout the world. Millions of children have been
made stateless through wars and
conflict. Hundreds of thousands of Burmese children have been displaced
by one of the harshest regimes on earth.
They are innocent victims living in a world of fear
and deprivation. A world in which child traffickers seek out the vulnerable
and lost;
the children who don't exist on "the records". Birth records provide a child with citizenship and
a nationality, the necessary prerequisites for individuals to enjoy their
human rights. Birth records provide a child with a protecting state.
Without birth records the children are stateless.
In Thailand the birth record of a child of a Burmese
asylum seeker born in a hospital is removed due to lack of government
actions to deal with the discrimination against Burmese people and corruption
amongst officials. Removing the
birth records
of these children has
robbed Burmese
children
of their
future.
The Mae Sot Birth
Registration Project provides documents
that will support Burmese children and parents access their civil and
political rights. |
