Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email If I remember correctly, there’s no gender discrimination in the registration / immigration rules/acts (need to check).
But why is it the statement below was made?
The Education Ministry will soon issue a circular to all schools nationwide, advising them to accept all ‘stateless’ children, even if they have no birth certificate, so long as the father is a Malaysian citizen.
However, the advice will come with a caveat: the children must have already applied, through the Malaysian parent, to the National Registration Department (NRD) for a birth certificate, citizenship or MyKad.
“A birth registration certificate will be issued to the child which will state that the child is not a citizen…,” deputy minister Wee Ka Siong said while on an official visit to Kota Kinabalu over the weekend.
“This will not be a problem as long as the father is a Malaysian citizen. The status of the mother is not important (whatever country) she is (originally) from…”
However, Wee could not categorically confirm, despite persistent questioning by the media, whether children of non-citizen fathers and Malaysian mothers will be accepted into government schools.
He merely said: “Malaysia definitely supports the Unesco policy of ‘education for all’.
Is this written down in law or just some SOP which worked it way in to the system? Aren’t we propagating equal gender rights?
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