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By Seoung Nimol |
<p>Despite Thailand&#39;s long-standing commitment to a policy of <a href="https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_099886.pdf">Education for All (EFA)</a> which allows stateless and migrant children to attend public schools, the children of illegal and impoverished Cambodian labourers are still being denied an education.</p>
<div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As of 19th June 2014, Human Rights Watch has <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrw.org%2Fnews%2F2014%2F06%2F19%2Fthailand-fears-crackdown-trigger-exodus&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFXJJjbE89SQTHOwasPvlNN8Aoc4g">reported</a> several hundred thousand migrant workers from Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos fleeing Thailand. An estimated 220,000 Cambodian workers have returned to the safety of their own country in fear of the Junta’s action against illegal migrant workers. </div>