Daily Dose @ 5: Malaysian women discriminated as children not automatically citizens, Bangladesh urged to halt refugees relocation

Among the headlines for Thursday, 3rd December 2020,  Petaling Jaya MP Maria Chin criticised the government’s refusal to update Malaysia’s laws to allow Malaysian women to share the same rights as Malaysian men to confer Malaysian citizenship on their own children when born to a non-Malaysian spouse.

 

Also, the relocation of thousands of Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char, a flood-prone Bay of Bengal island that emerged from the sea 20 years ago, poses grave concerns about independent human rights monitoring.

 

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