No child in Malaysia should be stateless over father’s sins, group tells Home Ministry on planned citizenship law change

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Children who are stateless are those who are not citizens of any countries in the world, and there are thousands of such children in Malaysia still denied citizenship because they were born out of wedlock or are still stateless even though they have been legally adopted by Malaysians.

Children who are stateless are those who are not citizens of any countries in the world, and there are thousands of such children in Malaysia still denied citizenship because they were born out of wedlock or are still stateless even though they have been legally adopted by Malaysians.

— Picture by Firdaus LatifKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 — Children born in Malaysia should not be penalised for being the illegitimate offspring of their Malaysian fathers and foreign mothers, said a group critical of the government’s proposal to strip the group of their constitutional protection from being made stateles

 

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