After mixed-bag bill passed, what next for stateless people?

In October, Parliament passed controversial amendments to the Constitution’s citizenship provisions through a Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2024.

According to critics, the bill is a case of one step forward, a few unnecessary steps backward. While the bill seeks to grant citizenship to overseas-born children of Malaysian women, it also includes a whole host of regressive amendments which will worsen conditions for other categories of stateless people in Malaysia.

This move was the last straw for Yap Xiang, who resigned in protest as vice-chief of PKR’s student wing, Mahasiswa Keadilan Malaysia. The student wing had previously rallied with other NGOs against the regressive provisions of the bill outside Parliament in March. Yap Xiang, also a member of Borneo Komrad, joins the conversation with BFM.

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