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The 42 DAP MPs will vote in support of a constitutional amendment to provide for equal rights for Malaysian women to confer citizenship on children born overseas

Posted by Kit in Population, women on Thursday, 19 September 2019

Kesemua 42 orang Ahli Parlimen DAP akan menyokong RUU Pindaan Perlembagaan bagi memberikan hak sama rata kepada wanita berbangsa Malaysia untuk menurunkan kerakyatan mereka kepada anak yang lahir di luar negara

Kesemua 42 orang Ahli Parlimen DAP akan menyokong satu Rang Undang-undang Pindaan Perlembagaan untuk memberikan hak sama rata kepada wanita yang berbangsa Malaysia untuk menurunkan kerakyatannya kepada anak kelahiran mereka yang lahir di luar negara.

Perkara 14 Perlembagaan Persekutuan membenarkan bapa berkerakyatan Malaysia untuk menurunkan kerakyatan mereka kepada anak mereka yang lahir di luar negara dengan kelulusan diberikan dalam tempoh beberapa bulan selepas permohonan.

Tetapi wanita berbangsa Malaysia yang mengahwini suami berbangsa asing perlu memohon kerakyatan bagi anak mereka di bawah peruntukan berbeza — Perkara 15(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Sesetengah wanita ini telah menunggu lebih daripada dua tahun untuk mendapatkan kerakyatan bagi anak mereka, malah sesetengah permohonan mereka telah ditolak tanpa sebab.

Mereka yang memohon semula setelah ditolak buat kali pertama kebiasaannya ditolak sekali lagi tanpa diberikan sebarang sebab. Read the rest of this entry »

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Seven-billionth human marks demographic change: expert

Posted by Kit in environment, Population on Monday, 31 October 2011

by Jim Forsyth
Reuters
Sun, Oct 30 2011

SAN ANTONIO, Tex (Reuters) — The seven-billionth human is expected to be born on Monday, but an expert who helps do the counting says that event comes as the Earth undergoes a demographic shift toward slower population growth.

According to the United Nations Population Fund, the seven-billionth child is most likely to be a boy born in India or China, but the trend of fertility in the longer term is in a different direction, says Dudley Poston, a professor of sociology and demographics at Texas A&M University,

For the first time ever, the human reproduction rate is slowing, in many places slowing significantly, and the slowing growth is not only happening in Europe and Japan, he says.

“Once your fertility rates drops below two, it is very very hard to get it to go back up again,” Poston told Reuters.

“We now have 75 countries in the world where the fertility rate is below two,” meaning the average woman is having fewer than two children.

That is far below the rate of 2.2 to 2.3 considered optimal to hold the population steady, factoring in the number of females who have no children or who don’t live to reach childbearing age. Read the rest of this entry »

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