{"id":24530,"date":"2021-09-20T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=24530"},"modified":"2021-09-21T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T02:52:09","slug":"sexist-stance-on-citizenship-law-directly-contradicts-ismail-sabris-keluarga-malaysia-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/sexist-stance-on-citizenship-law-directly-contradicts-ismail-sabris-keluarga-malaysia-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexist stance on citizenship law directly contradicts Ismail Sabri&#8217;s Keluarga Malaysia concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-90x90.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt-960x960.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sexist-govt.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>DAP strongly admonishes the government\u2019s stubborn decision to proceed with its appeal against the recent High Court decision allowing Malaysian women to confer citizenship on their overseas-born children, placing them&nbsp;on an equal basis with Malaysian men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng, the High Court had rightly decided that depriving Malaysian women of this automatic right was wrong. Such denial constituted an act of gender discrimination, and violated basic human rights as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no reason why children born to Malaysian mothers abroad should be discriminated against and not accorded the right to citizenship in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, Lim added that granting fathers this right but denying mothers the same made a mockery out of Ismail Sabri\u2019s Malaysian Family concept. If the Attorney General refuses to withdraw this appeal, Ismail Sabri as the Prime Minister should speak up and make it crystal clear to the former that he is different from past Prime Ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, until now, Ismail Sabri has stayed silent on the matter despite ensuing public outrage that followed his government\u2019s decision to appeal the High Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAP strongly admonishes the government\u2019s stubborn decision to proceed with its appeal against the recent High Court decision allowing Malaysian women to confer citizenship on their overseas-born children, placing them&nbsp;on an equal basis with Malaysian men. According to DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng, the High Court had rightly decided that depriving Malaysian women of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,531,274],"tags":[948,1164,736,382,2272,1048,609],"class_list":["post-24530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","category-featured","category-national","tag-attorney-general","tag-citizenship","tag-discrimination","tag-ismail-sabri","tag-malaysian-mothers","tag-prejudice","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24540,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24530\/revisions\/24540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}