Homegrown Statelessness in Malaysia 9NGO 10NGO 11NGO 12NGO 13NGO Network of many Muslim organizations that works on development, social and economic issues. Founder of NGO that helps street children. NGO that provides legal services to refugees, and community and empowerment programs. NGO that provides services to Indian Tamil community. NGO that provides services to remote locations in Sabah. Works with refugees and migrants. of a domestic worker from the Philippines. Malaysia did not give citizenship but were able to give citizenship from her own country in Europe. Aware of many cases of baby abandonment for reasons: - Foreign workers having children while in Malaysia - Women having children out of wedlock - Women too young to raise a child - Children rescued from baby selling rackets Encountered stateless children among children NGO services and adopted an abandoned baby that was being sold in the black market. Encountered through providing services for Rohingya refugees. Commented that UNHCR and government treats refugees as using Malaysia as a transit point to other resettlement locations but that many don’t see Malaysia as transit but final destination. Encountered by providing services to community. Case 1: Children adopted are stateless and still trying to get citizenship for them after many years. Encountered in helping persons in Sabah. Providing paralegal assistance to stateless in Sabah. 135 Case 1: Rohingya woman in Malaysia since 1986. No hope of her getting citizenship. Lived in Malaysia since she was five years old. Spoke in general about how Rohingya don’t even realise stateless and are just trying to survive. Mapping of Indian Tamils who are stateless and helping to register them.