Activists: Amendments a regressive step for children’s rights


PETALING JAYA: While some groups laud the move to proceed with proposed constitutional amendments allowing children born abroad to Malaysian mothers to obtain citizenship, they say the other five proposed amendments to citizenship laws were a step backwards.

They said the five amendments will affect children born out of wedlock to Malaysian men, stateless children adopted by Malaysian parents, abandoned babies or children and families with generations of stateless children born in Malaysia.

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