Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 39th Session of the Universal Periodic Review THAILAND Introduction 1 Adventist Development and Relief Agency – Thailand (ADRA)1, the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR) 2 and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI)3 make this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in Thailand. 2 This submission focuses on: • Gender discrimination in the nationality law; • The child’s right to nationality; • Denial of human rights of stateless persons; and • The rights of Rohingya in Thailand. Previous UPR of Thailand under the First and Second Cycle 3 Thailand was previously reviewed during the 12th and 25th Sessions of the UPR, in 2011 and 2016 respectively. 4 In 2016, Thailand received the following recommendations, which it accepted: 1 ADRA delivers relief and development assistance to individuals in more than 118 countries regardless of ethnicity, political affiliation, gender or religious association. ADRA partners with local communities and governments to deliver culturally relevant programs and build local capabilities for sustainable change. ADRA also works with stateless communities to support access to education, healthcare, and livelihoods, through community sensitisation and advocacy. 2 GCENR is coalition of national and international organizations working to end gender discrimination in nationality laws so that women and men have the equal right to acquire, change and retain their nationality and the equal right to confer nationality on their spouse and their children. Housed at steering committee member Women’s Refugee Commission, other steering committee members include Equal Rights Trust, Equality Now, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, and Women’s Learning Partnership. For more information, see https://equalnationalityrights.org/. 3 ISI is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote inclusive societies by realising and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. ISI has made over 70 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 37th UPR Sessions. For more information, see https://www.institutesi.org/. 1