Chee Yoke Ling, Rekha Sen and Suriani Kempe, three Malaysian mothers who have been fighting for change to the country’s citizenship laws. The High Court ruling overturned a long-established system of gender discrimination that has meant that children born overseas to a Malaysian mother and a foreign father have been for decades denied automatic Malaysian citizenship. “Are Malaysian mothers less Malaysian than Malaysian fathers?” Sultan of Johor “I told the eldest, ‘you can come back to see your grandparents, but the other two can’t’. “It’s impossible for me to look back without considering the crushing impact Malaysia’s citizenship laws had and continue to have on my life and career trajectory,” she said. “Malaysian citizenship is my right,” she said.

Source: Libya Today December 20, 2021 18:05 UTC