Friday, 18 Dec 2020 07:08 PM MYT
BY DANIAL DZULKIFLY
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 A non-profit group along with six Malaysian mothers today filed a constitutional challenge with the High Court in seeking a declaration that Malaysian mothers married to foreign spouses are able to automatically confer citizenship for their children born overseas.
In a press statement today, The Association of Family Support and Welfare Selangor & KL (Family Frontiers), an umbrella body for the Foreign Spouses Support Group that support and advocates for the rights of foreign spouses married to Malaysian citizens, said the constitutional challenge is to seek precedence that upholds principles of equality, international conventions to which Malaysia is a signatory, and the Federal Constitution.