Statelessness

We recommend that ASEAN member states:

1. Harmonise ASEAN laws to address gender and ethnic discrimination in nationality laws, ensuring equality in acquiring nationality, and its conferral on children – regardless of birthplace or parents’ marital status, especially among vulnerable children such as stateless, abandoned, foundling and adopted children – and on spouses.

2. Advocates for a uniform civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) regional framework.

3. Policies granting stateless individuals’ equal access to education, healthcare, social services and legal employment.

4. Foster cross-border partnerships for long-standing issues concerning maritime Indigenous communities, multigenerational migrants and stateless refugees.

5. Collaboration through training and ASEAN-led knowledge-sharing forums.

Thematic Group Organisations

1. Development of Human Resorces for Eural Areas (DHHRA) Malaysia

2. ANAK Advocates for Non-Discrimination and Access to Knowledge (ANAK) Sabah

3. Stateless Malaysian Citizenship Movement (SMCM) 

4. Stateless.MY

5. Yayasan Chow Kit (YCK)

6. Mandiri

7. Lawyer Kamek

8. Malaysian Stateless Alliance

9. Iskul Sama di Laut Omadal

10. Buku Jalanan Chow Kit

11. Borneo Komrad

12. Voice of the Children (VoC)

13. Global Shepherds

14. Nationality for All (NFA)

15. Grassroots Justice Network Southeast Asia

16. Sembada Bersama (Indonesia)

For further details regarding this thematic cluster, kindly direct your inquiries to:

Name: Afrina (DHHRA Malaysia)

Email:afrina@dhrramalaysia.org