Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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13 Jan, 2021

Undocumented Myanmar nationals in Thailand

22 July, 2025
Some 200 Myanmar soldiers have withdrawn to the so-called Friendship Bridge connecting the border town of Myawaddy to Thailand amid a relentless assault by anticoup forces/Al Jazeera

Some 200 Myanmar soldiers have withdrawn to the so-called Friendship Bridge connecting the border town of Myawaddy to Thailand amid a relentless assault by anticoup forces/Al Jazeera

HRW report examines the situation for Myanmar nationals in Thailand since the coup.

While many are refugees under international law, Thailand has not recognized them as such, leaving limited ways in which they can regularize their status.

Undocumented Myanmar nationals struggle to cope without legal security or permission to work and live in fear of being returned to repression, conflict, and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.

HRW revealed the findings at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Thailand on July 15.

Source: Nadia Hardman’s new report, “I’ll Never Feel Secure”