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Fears over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act are unfounded

... over the years. Even today, we have instances in Pakistan of Sikh girls being abducted, forcibly married and converted to Islam. Many Sikhs moved out of Afghanistan during Taliban rule. A significant number of Hindus have migrated from Bangladesh to India before 1971 and afterwards, even if Sheikh Hasina’s government today is protective of minorities. As far back as 2003, when this writer was Foreign Secretary, we had officially communicated to Bangladesh that in our estimation there were about ...

16.01.2020

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Global Implications of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act 2019

... fundamentally discriminatory in nature," UNHR spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said in Geneva. The Office of the UNHCR hopes that new law will be reviewed by the Supreme Court of India and hope it will consider the compatibility of the law carefully with India's international human rights obligations. Intellectuals and writers across the globe have compared the CAA, with all its discriminatory provisions, to the dishonourable Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany. In September 1935, Germany introduced two draconian laws commonly ...

16.01.2020

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