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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Family of migrant workers
Mon State, Myanmar Voice
“I worry that my A migrant worker and his wife from Mon State in Myanmar migrated four years ago to Thailand.
daughter will not be The husband looks after their daughter while his wife works as a live-in housekeeper and comes
to visit only on Sundays. They share their own experience with the human rights situation. This
able to attend school family has a daughter who was born in Thailand. When their daughter was born, the hospital
provided a birth certificate for her, they explain. But the husband worries that his daughter will
in Thailand” not be able to attend school in Thailand, even though he is aware that there is a law in Thailand
that allows for children of migrant workers to receive an education. Although he paid a great
deal of money to obtain an alien registration card, enabling him to move from one province to
another, he feels that he needs to be cautious so as to not be arrested or fined by the police.
A woman Voice
Migrant worker
Karen State, Myanmar
“I was not given a work A female migrant worker from Myanmar’s Karen State reports that the human rights problems
faced by migrant workers from Myanmar are related to their rights to work and to travel. Her
permit and therefore friend, who had previously worked as a caretaker of elderly people, claimed that she was not
could not get a given a work permit and therefore could not get a new job. According to her, other migrant
workers from Myanmar have claimed that they are often stopped by police who check their
new job” documents and ask them to pay a fine directly, irrespective of whether or not they have valid
documents. “The migrants say they pay because they are afraid,” she explains. She herself has
experienced such an incident while she was waiting at a bus stop.
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