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UNESCO Bangkok Releases Legal Grounds for Birth Registration in Thailand

Thailand has the international legal obligation to register children after birth and provide them with a nationality. The question arising is: what are the exact international human rights on which this assumption is based?

The two fact sheets on "the right to birth registration and a nationality" have been prepared to answer this question. Downloads are available at the bottom of this document.

1. Fact Sheet 1 lists the international legal grounds applicable for Thailand.
2. Fact Sheet 2 to lists the international legal grounds applicable for the Greater Mekong Sub-region countries (other than Thailand).

These fact sheets have been prepared for UNESCO's Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Project for the Greater Mekong Sub-region and are derived from a more detailed paper, 'The Right to Birth Registration and a Nationality: International Legal Grounds Applicable for Thailand'.

This paper includes:

1. the full text of the relevant articles (and some brief comments where necessary);
2. dates of the conventions and ratifications;
3. the field of application of each relevant convention/ article;
4. relevant international declarations;
5. suggestions from treaty-monitoring committees;
6. some relevant conventions Thailand has not ratified to date.

Clara van Panhuys
Office of the Regional Advisor for Culture in Asia and the Pacific UNESCO Bangkok 920 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110 Thailand
Tel: (+66) 2 391 0577 ext. 516
Fax: (+66) 2 391 0866
c.vanpanhuys@unescobkk.org or
claravanpanhuys@hotmail.com
www.unescobkk.org/culture/trafficking

Available Downloads

Fact Sheet 1

Fact Sheet 2