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Help 'missed Thai people' solve the problem of Thai people without rights.

Updated 25 Sep 2026233 views
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"Rightless Thais" aren't migrant workers — they're Thai-born people who fell through the civil registration system. They fall into four main groups: children never registered at birth, people struck from house registration records (Tor.Ror.97 status), draft evaders in hiding, and people who can't prove their identity, such as orphans. This means no access to healthcare rights, education, or welfare. If you know someone in this situation, the Human Settlement Foundation (มพศ.) or the local district office can advise on proving identity and correcting civil registration records.

Because Thai people have no rights and are not migrant workers. But I'm a Thai person who doesn't have an ID card. and causing them to not be able to access the various rights that they should have

From a survey of Thai people without rights. By the Habitat Development Foundation (DHA) and its network, they were able to separate Thai people without rights into 4 groups, namely

  1. people who have never had an ID card before. Because the parents did not report their birth
  2. Groups with Tor. 97 had their names removed from the household registration. Make the name go to the central register
  3. military escape group Fear of being prosecuted makes them reluctant to renew their ID card
  4. Group who cannot prove their identity Abandoned by parents in temples and shelters There is only one person left unable to prove their personal status.

These people are all Thai people, but for various reasons they must have the status of Thai people without rights. Various agencies therefore work together to solve the problem of missing Thai people who still do not have access to the health service system throughout the country.

Eliminating barriers to accessing health is a matter of great importance to Thai Health Promotion Foundation because rightsless people are those who do not have access to rights and welfare. Including access to matters that Thai people can easily access, especially access to the right to receive health services. Work on rights focuses on proving rights, developing rights, following up on what level their rights are at. It also helps with those who have rights but are still unable to access those services. We will help carry out the provision of appropriate health and welfare services

“The reason why the Thai Health Promotion Foundation has come to support and close this gap. Because following the vision We believe that having rights and status are the first factors that will allow people to develop access to health services. and other rights appropriately.”

The work of the NHSO in the past has tried to move in the spatial area. Trying to find people who don't have rights. But it was too much work. Therefore turned to work in a systematic way as well. Because systematic work requires empirical evidence. NHSO therefore wants all sectors to participate creatively. It will help with the system. and registration for people without rights after receiving a 13-digit number on their national ID card But before that, we had to rely on network partners to drive together.

People without rights is not new. But people have no rights when they are seriously ill but cannot receive medical treatment. Including when someone dies but cannot take the body out of the hospital. Because you must specify that you are a person without relatives. No status even though he was born in the community as a full Thai person. But cannot be identified as being Thai The Habitat Development Foundation (M.D.) is therefore trying to make society aware that There are still these people who are not yet in any substance system.

An important issue for Thai people without rights is health. When a problem arises, all the money must be used for treatment. Or save it for daily expenses and allow it to become seriously ill. When you really can't take it, you have to call various foundations to come pick it up so that you can receive medical treatment. But faced another problem because no one came to pay the service fee. and becomes a burden on the hospital. The Foundation is therefore trying to coordinate with the network to find a way for disenfranchised Thai people to have the right to medical care, which is a basic right that everyone should have.

Because every side has problems. I want to help, but there are limits to how much I can help. Taking someone to get an ID card If the personal details are not clear I didn't dare to do it. Because it has real rights But there are people without real rights. The problem is that most people without rights do not dare to go to receive medical treatment at hospitals. because he does not have the right to receive treatment Having an ID card is therefore important in order to receive the correct treatment. The solution is to request a group of people without rights to enter a welfare center. To submit the matter to the Committee for Statusless Persons which will meet to find a solution for groups of people without rights

because all parties are experiencing problems. I want to help, but there are limits to how much I can help. Taking someone to get an ID card If the personal details are not clear I didn't dare to do it. Because it has real rights But there are truly rightsless people

summary

Proof of personal status. It doesn't just come with an ID card. But will receive various basic rights that every Thai person should receive, such as the right to education. Various welfare rights and health rights Because there are still many Thai people who still have no rights. Working in such matters can help improve the way of life of many people in Thai society.

Sources

  • Human Settlement Foundation (the article's original source)
  • National Health Security Office (NHSO)

Information updated 25 September 2026.