DSI and CIFS integrates their work for solutions to problems of stateless persons as per “Justice Builds Happiness” policy

DSI and CIFS integrates their work for solutions to problems of stateless persons as per “Justice Builds Happiness” policy

       The policy “Justice Builds Happiness” of Mr. Somsak Thepsuthin, the Minister of Justice, aims to provide justice and offer opportunities to stateless persons (the group of persons being omitted from the survey), mostly the minority who is poor living in remote bordering areas and lacking of important evidence essential to claim the nationality. It was found that 479,943 people being omitted from the survey had requested for registration with the Thai government.

       For accessibility to nationality identification in line with the human rights principle by all persons, the Minister of Justice, therefore, ordered the Department of Special Investigation and the Central Institute of Forensic Science to conduct the project for furnishing justice on security by jointly integrating their work with relevant agencies and the Civil Society Organization, and to search for and bring stateless persons to the nationality identification process by creating a screening process before consideration and employing an innovation of utilizing the Civil Registration Database for connecting to the family tree in order to minimize the errors of nationality consideration before entering into the DNA testing process.

       Today, March 21, 2022, Mr. Triyarith Temahivong (the Director-General of the DSI), Asst. Prof. Worawee Waiyawuth (the Deputy Director-General of the CIFS), Pol. Lt. Col. Phong-in Intharakhao (the advisor to the project for furnishing justice on security), Directors of Provincial Justice Offices and relevant agencies, visited Omkoi District, Chiang Mai Province to inspect and jointly identify nationalities of 224 persons applying for Thai nationality and their reference persons. Tomorrow, March 22, 2022, they will travel to Sop Moei District and Mae Sariang District, Mae Hong Son Province to hand identification cards to 21 persons who passed the nationality consideration process supported decently by the Civil Society Organizations, namely, the Plan International (Thailand), the Legal Status Network Foundation, and the Indigenous Woman’s Network of Thailand. After this, the DSI and the CIFS will further search, inspect and screen the stateless persons who have been omitted from the survey for bringing them to the nationality identification process completely.

Dated March 21, 2022