Universal Declaration of Human Rights Family of migrant workers Mon State, Myanmar “I worry that my daughter will not be able to attend school in Thailand” Voice A migrant worker and his wife from Mon State in Myanmar migrated four years ago to Thailand. 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 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 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 Migrant worker Karen State, Myanmar Voice “I was not given a work permit and therefore could not get a new job” 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 friend, who had previously worked as a caretaker of elderly people, claimed that she was not 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 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. 60 Dignity and Justice for All of Us