2019 Statelessness & Citizenship Review of children’s organizations. 1(1) descent) and mother Filipino. Case 2: Adoption of a child with no documents. Nothing known about father and little know about mother. Declarations provided from people that the baby had been given over. Has not reached court yet. Case 3: Grandmother, mother and child stateless. Not actually stateless but lacking documents. Grandmother’s husband got drunk and destroyed all documents. All got citizenship after went to court. 7NGO 8NGO Civil society network engaged in advocacy, capacity building, research and awareness raising on a number of issues. Focused on immigration detention and encountered stateless persons in detention or through work with organization in network. NGO deals with abandoned children. Operates a baby hatch for abandoned children who are undocumented and therefore stateless. 134 Case 4: Domestic worker from the Philippines had baby in Malaysia before she married. Status in limbo. Aware of stateless populations: - Filipinos in Sabah who lived in Malaysia for generations - Children of mixed marriages - Children born of parents before married with mixed nationalities - People of Indian descent who came to work in Malaysia before independence - Chinese children born of polygamous families where multiple marriages not legally recognized Case 1: Boy abandoned by parents at Thai-Malaysia border. Grew up in Malaysia and was detained at 14 for two years, part of the time in solitary confinement. Not able to track down parents. Was just picked up on a random check. Unsure if still in detention. Case 2: 70 year old Chinese man detained. Had no documents and not in government system despite saying he was born in Malaysia. Placed a newspaper ad trying to find someone to identify the man but no one came forward. For abandoned babies, when registering birth, their birth certificate defaults to not a citizen. Case 1: Personal story of NGO worker who adopted two kids born