NO SAFE HAVEN
134
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
Save the Children interviews, January 2021. See also ILO, Thailand
Migration Report 2019.
135
136
Civil Registration Act (No. 2) B.E. 2551 (2008)
137
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
Save the Children interview, January 2021. See also UNHCR,
Ensuring birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, 2017, p. 24,
https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/5a0ac8f94.pdf
138
139
Section 7, Nationality Act (No. 4), B.E. 2551 (2008).
140
See 1999 Education for All Policy and 2005 Cabinet Resolution on
Education for Unregistered Persons.
141
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
UNICEF, ‘Removing barriers to migrant children’s education in
Thailand – New report showcases successful examples for making
education a reality for migrant children’, 19 December 2019,
https://www.unicef.org/thailand/press-releases/removing-barriersmigrant-childrens-education-thailand.
142
143
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
UNESCO, ‘Coordinated action needed for migrant students
amid pandemic’, 2 July 2020, https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/
coordinated-action-needed-migrant-students-amid-pandemic.
UNHCR, UNHCR Indonesia: Response to the Rohingya situation
in Aceh and North Sumatera – February 2016, 29 February 2016,
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/58208e224.pdf.
152
According to UNHCR, as of November 2020, there were
13,745 people registered with the agency, of whom 3,819 (28%) were
children. See UNHCR Indonesia Country Fact Sheet – November
2020, https://www.unhcr.org/id/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2021/01/
Indonesia-Country-Fact-Sheet-November-2020.pdf.
153
154
156
Save the Children interview, January 2021. See, for example,
UNHCR, UPR submission: Thailand, p. 10–13; CAT, Concluding
Observations, 2014, para. 22; UNHCR, UPR submission: Thailand,
p. 13; CESCR, Concluding Observations, 2015, para. 28, Amnesty
International, Between a rock and a hard place: Thailand’s refugee policies
and violations of the principle of non-refoulement, 28 September 2017, p. 17,
And, more recently, UCA News, ‘Caged like animals: inside Bangkok’s
notorious IDC’, 3 February 2020, https://www.ucanews.com/news/
caged-like-animals-inside-bangkoks-notorious-idc/87104.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, Press
release: Press Release: Signing Ceremony of the Memorandum of
Understanding on the Determination of Measures and Approaches
Alternative to Detention of Children in Immigration Detention
Centers, 24 January 2019, http://www3.mfa.go.th/main/en/
news3/6886/98779-Signing-Ceremony-of-the-Memorandum-ofUnderstandin.html.
146
147
Save the Children interviews, November 2020–January 2021.
Save the Children interview, January 2021. See also Fortify Rights,
Thailand: Protect Rohingya Refugees from Forced Return, Indefinite
Detention, 5 June 2020.
148
149
Save the Children interview, January 2021. See also Fortify Rights,
‘Thailand: Protect Rohingya refugees from forced return, indefinite
detention’, 5 June 2020, https://www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-202006-05.
150
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
See, for example, Joint statement: ASEAN must prevent another
‘Rohingya boat crisis’, Joint Statement by 16 humanitarian
organisations, 16 November 2020, https://www.care-international.
org/news/press-releases/joint-statement-asean-must-prevent-anotherrohingya-boat-crisis; Human Rights Watch, ‘Malaysia/Thailand: Allow
Rohingya refugees ashore’, 12 June 2020; The Nation, ‘UN voices
concern after Thai authorities force Rohingya back to sea’, 2 April
2018, https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30342303.
151
40
Article 7.
Article 27 of Indonesia’s Law No. 23/2002 regarding Child
Protection provides that “Every child must be given an identity from
birth”, while Article 28 further states that the issuance of a birth
certificate is free of charge.
157
158
Save the Children interviews, January 2021.
159
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
160
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
144
145
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
This includes confirming a formal role for UNHCR in the handling
of refugees (Article 2); providing for search and rescue at sea
(Articles 5–9); and support for refugees, including shelter and
identification of refugees in need of emergency medical attention
(Article 9 and Articles 24–30).
155
Law of the Republic of Indonesia 12/2006 on Citizenship of the
Republic of Indonesia.
161
162
Ministry of Education and Culture, Letter Concerning: Education for
Refugee Children, Number 75253/A.A4/HK/2019, 10 July 2019, on file
with Save the Children.
163
See note 159.
164
Save the Children interview, January 2021.
UNHCR Indonesia Country Fact Sheet – July 2020,
https://www.unhcr.org/id/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2020/08/
Indonesia-Fact-Sheet-July-2020-FINAL.pdf.
165
166
Save the Children interviews, December 2020 and January 2021.
167
Save the Children interviews, January 2021.
168
UNHCR fact sheets, 2020, on file with Save the Children.
The Guardian, ‘Three Rohingya refugees die days after
seven-month ordeal on trafficking boat’, 12 September 2020,
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/12/
three-rohingya-refugees-die-days-after-seven-month-ordeal-ontrafficking-boat-indonesia.
169
UNHCR Population Figure Rohingya Boat Arrival – Aceh
27 September 2020, on file with Save the Children.
170
Save the Children interview, January 2021. By way of example,
as of the end of January 2021, of the 396 Rohingya refugees who
arrived in Aceh in 2020, just 112 remained in shelters. AFP, ‘Hundreds
of Rohingya missing from Aceh refugee camp’, 28 January 2021,
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2021/01/28/hundreds-ofrohingya-missing-from-aceh-refugee-camp.html.
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172
Save the Children interviews, January 2021.
173
Save the Children interviews, January 2021.
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Save the Children interview, January 2021.