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Jun 30, 2023 · Citizenship lawyers have often argued in court that such Malaysia-born persons are stateless, if they have not acquired the citizenship of any other country within a year of their birth (based on Section 2 (3)) and if the government still refuses to recognise them as Malaysians.
The effects of being born stateless are severe. In more than 30 countries, children need nationality documentation to receive medical care. In at least 20 countries, stateless children cannot be legally vaccinated. This year UNHCR spoke to children and young people from 7 different countries.
DHRRA Malaysia2 (DHRRA) is the pioneer in bringing to surface the plight of in-situ stateless persons in Malaysia. For more than a decade, the organisation has been striving to resolve statelessness in the country using evidence based approach. DHRRA’s involvement in the statelessness issue was not planned.
A stateless child (from the Greek a-polis “without a city”) is an individual who does not hold the citizenship of any state. The international legal definition of a stateless person is “ a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law ” (UNHCR, 2021).
There are several factors leading to the creation of stateless children in Malaysia – failure of marriage registration by their parents, unregistered births, adopted or abandoned children, and children of refugees and undocumented migrants.
Jul 10, 2023 · Of the 9,392, the biggest proportion is childhood statelessness at 8,223 persons (which covers children born out of wedlock in Malaysia and children adopted by Malaysians); followed by 1,003 under the pre-independence stateless category (those who arrived or were born here even before Malaya’s independence in 1957 but are denied citizenship ...
Nov 9, 2023 · Among the categories of stateless people in Malaysia are children born out of wedlock to a Malaysian father, stateless children adopted by Malaysian parents, abandoned children without...
