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.
"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. He added that this will make it easier for the government to monitor stateless individuals, as it would now have data on them."By doing this, we will know the extent of issues related to the stateless community, and we would be able to come up with better solutions," he said.
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