No one wants to be stateless — with no nationality and no legal identity. Having a nationality is a right enshrined and guaranteed in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet close to 300,000 children in Thailand have no such status. They live in fear, with their fundamental rights and future dreams diminished.
“I’ve never had any kind of ID card. I’ve never had a chance to participate in any activity that required a participant to fill his or her ID number in an application form. And, whenever I have to travel, I’m always afraid I’ll get arrested,” said Namfon*, a 14-year-old girl. Her parents…
