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. 171 172 Save the Children interviews, January 2021. 173 Save the Children interviews, January 2021. 174 Save the Children interview, January 2021.