The Right to Call Malaysia My Home
*This article written by Cellini Basri, Head of External Relations & Advocacy at Bait Al-Amanah was also published in The Star, The Malaysian Insight, Malaysiakini and Malay Mail. Just last month on the 30th of August, the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness marks its 60th anniversary- a Convention that Malaysia has yet to accede to despite being the home to a large number of stateless individuals. According to the whitepaper on “Malaysia’s Invisible Poor: Th