THE heartbreaking plight of stateless persons, especially children, in this country was well explained in the column “Resolving statelessness in Malaysia” by Eric Paulsen, Malaysia’s representative to the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (Sunday Star, Sept 15; online at bit.ly/star_stateless).
Numerous articles have been posted on social media, including Facebook, by child advocates such as Syed Azmi Alhabshi and Dr Hartini Zainuddin of Yayasan Chow Kit, and published in newspapers, both online and print, to highlight the helplessness of people who are in this vulnerable situation through no fault of their own.
