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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.
- Counting Malaysia’s ‘invisible’ people: How many born here cannot be ...
Of the 9,392, the biggest proportion is childhood...
- Counting Malaysia’s ‘invisible’ people: How many born here cannot be ...
Learn about the impacts and causes of statelessness on children and young people around the world, and how UNHCR is working to end it. Watch stories of stateless children and see how they can gain nationality and belong.
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.
Learn what statelessness means, who are the stateless children, and what are the consequences and solutions for them. Find out how international law and human rights protect the right to a nationality for every child.
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...
