Thailand is host to the second-largest refugee population in Asia. There are over 150,000 stateless children in the system, plus an estimated 50,000 who are not registered. Though Thailand has made a lot of progress in the past ten years, especially in terms of policies, there is still room for improvement in accelerating the process and reaching the goal of zero stateless children in the near future.

 

The Director of the Legal Status Network Foundation, Santiphong Moonfong, has been working with children for almost 30 years. He has seen the problems and challenges of stateless children firsthand and told Thai PBS World that Thailand has been trying to deal with the issue structurally, with laws and policies in place. The problem now is the practicality of the process.

 

Simplification and flexibility

 

“Stateless children are everywhere, in every registration office district, all over the country. The density, however, might vary. As of now, these children are standing on Thai soil. The challenge is how to provide these children with legal status,” said Santiphong.

 

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Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-must-simplify-processes-to-solve-statelessness/

 

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The Legal Status Network Foundation is clearly an NGO, and their website is fairly good. So it is not part of the Thai government, but tries to work with the government.  Its Director says "Thailand does not lack political will", but it appears he is just being polite to the people in government he has to work with, or try to work with, since he also indicates that they are moving at a pace which makes a snail look speedy. It would be so great if the MFP would take up the issues this NGO is promoting. 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Though Thailand has made a lot of progress in the past ten years, especially in terms of policies,

What progress?

The bottom of the ladder; below the semi-divine Thai you have all the non-Thais legally in the country, then the non-Thais with paper illegally in the country and then the crowd of stateless neo-slaves who can be exploited and scared to death. 

Note to self: happens in the 21st century apparently in a non-third world country 

Jeez, what future do they have?  Very sad indeed.