Global Bersih: Regressive citizenship amendments risk making Malaysia’s vulnerable children stateless; govt should drop such plans

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 — Malaysia’s federal government should rethink and cancel its plan to make “regressive” changes to citizenship laws in the Federal Constitution, as these proposed amendments would take away existing protections for vulnerable children and cause more of them to become stateless, advocacy group Global Bersih said today.

Global Bersih, an international non-partisan…