Family Frontiers, led by Suriani Kempe, achieved a significant victory with the 2023 amendment to the Federal Constitution allowing Malaysian mothers to confer citizenship to their children born overseas.

In September 2023, Kempe was honoured with the Finland Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Hän Honour in Malaysia award for her unwavering advocacy for gender equality. She was also recently nominated to the board of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, a feminist organisation focused on advancing gender equality. Presently, Kempe is collaborating with other activists on a targeted campaign to lobby the Malaysian government against constitutional amendments that may risk revoking citizenship from vulnerable categories of children in Malaysia.

Next year, Family Frontiers and its partners will host the 2024 World Conference on Statelessness in Kuala Lumpur to raise awareness about firsthand experiences of statelessness globally.