KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) academician Wan Shawaluddin Wan Hassan has recommended the state government to issue birth certificates to stateless children, so they can access basic rights such as education and healthcare. Wan Shawaluddin said the issue of statelessness in Sabah has to be approached from a human rights perspective. "Stateless children also have the right to have a birth certificate of their own. There are many problems going on in the state now, because the government don't allow them to get birth certificates. "If the children are documented, at least there would be data on them," he explained, adding that children with documents would have access to education and healthcare.

Source: The Star April 24, 2019 08:26 UTC