Don’t make statelessness worse, govt urged

KUALA LUMPUR: The perennial problem of statelessness has inflicted injustice on thousands of people born in this country and to rectify this, the government should reconsider five of its proposed constitutional amendments, says civil society.

Social Protection of Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas director Maalini Ramalo called on Putrajaya to defer the five proposed amendments that she said would take away the existing rights of citizenship of stateless children.