‘Nationality laws are unfair’


KUALA LUMPUR: The Pakatan Harapan government has been urged to change nationality laws so that Malaysian women and men share equal rights to confer citizenship on their children and spouses.

Delegates to the Malaysian Natio­nal Consultation on Achieving Equal Nationality Rights for Women and Men also want Articles 14 and 15 of the Federal Constitution which allow discrimination based on gender to be amended.

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