You-Me-We-Us: The Hope of Mrs Arm
Tea plantations in the Mae Chan region
'I hope my children get an ID card so that they have a better life than me.'
Ms Arm, 34, works in her garden in Thailand's Chiang Rai province with her daughter Nantita, 8 years old. Poor is stateless, like her husband and 5 children. This means that the family faces various problems including limited freedom of movement and limited access to care.
The UNHCR partner organization Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) recently helped daughter Nantita, who suffers from epilepsy, get an ID card and health insurance policy to guarantee access to medicines. But her other relatives still haven't succeeded.
Progress has been made, but stateless people in Thailand continue to experience problems with their basic rights. The UNHCR welcomes Thailand's continued commitment to addressing statelessness. The government remains attentive to resolve this issue.
Source: https://you-me-we-us.com/story-view Translation and editing Erik Kuijpers.
This article is also part of the 'I Belong' campaign to end statelessness within 10 years. Author: UNHCR, writers Korakrit & Nakin
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for refugees, displaced people, displaced peoples, and stateless people.
Horrible !!! How humane are we really?
Well, if we are to rely on the bureaucracy of central authority, the answer is: not bad. Official mills, restrictions, exclusions and rules are rules. In addition, various peoples in the border area are not or not really seen as Thai or refugees at all. So with the wrong papers you are out of luck, whether you, your parents or ancestors came there 10, 100 years or another year... the various articles, also on this blog here, about stateless people, refugees and minorities in the border area see a lot of suffering and that the unlucky ones (understatement) don't have much to expect from it... very sad, but if the civil service or computer says NO...