THE proposed constitutional amendments to Malaysia’s citizenship laws initially emerged as a noble effort to address long-standing gender inequality, aiming to grant Malaysian women the right to confer citizenship on their overseas-born children—something already afforded to Malaysian fathers.
However, when the proposed amendments were finally revealed late last year, they included several controversial and regressive changes, sparking widespread concern.
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