KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin should amend Malaysia’s citizenship laws for the sake of all stateless children, instead of just looking at cases of one child at a time, Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh said today. Yeoh, who is also former women, family and community.
No one wants to be stateless with no nationality and no legal identity. Having a nationality is a right enshrined and guaranteed in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet close to 300,000 children in Thailand have no such status. They live in fear, with their fundamental rights and future dreams diminished.