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12 Jul 2021 / 09:15 H.
FOR the Penans, it is a chicken-and-egg situation. They can’t solve the problems facing their community, including poverty, if they don’t go to school and get a decent education. But they can’t go to school if they don’t have identification papers.
It appears that the Penans have an entire system stacked against them.
Unless the government is able to acknowledge their problems with the infrastructure problems in rural areas, the issues of statelessness will persist.
LK4C’s Simon Siah said the main legal barriers for the situation are conditions in the Federal Constitution.
Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021 04:18 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Members of Family Frontiers hold up placards demanding equal citizenship rights for Malaysians at the Kuala Lumpur High Court April 27, 2021. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 The Malaysian government today argued that the High Court should strike out a lawsuit filed by several Malaysian mothers with foreign spouses who want their children born abroad to automatically be recognised as Malaysian citizens.
But the mothers’ lawyer said that the doors of the courts should not be closed to them at this stage and that they should not be denied access to justice, and the High Court should hear their court challenge instead of throwing it out now.
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