Honour mothers by giving them equal rights

THE Malaysian Campaign for Equal Citizenship would like to remind the government that Malaysian mothers still do not have the right to pass their citizenship on to their children who were born overseas. The unequal treatment of women with regard to the right to passing on their citizenship to their children is a direct discrimination against Malaysian mothers.

When they cannot get their overseas-born children legally recognised as Malaysians, they would be compelled to rely on their foreign husbands for citizenship, leading to situations where they may be forced to live abroad and sometimes in vulnerable circumstances.