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From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali
Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village
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Protests break out against CAB, 2019
Pune to Kolkata, Delhi to Mumbai and Lucknow, protests from a variety of Citizens groups and organisations have broken out over the brazen attempt at partisan citizenship : Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019
Systematic crackdown on critics in India: CIVICUS Monitor
India’s global rating downgraded to ‘repressed’, in same bracket as Brunei, Nigeria and Madagascar.
EXCLUSIVE: BJP Govt plans to evict 70 lakh Muslims, 60 lakh Bengali Hindus through its Land Policy (2019) in Assam
Cong protests push back sinister plan through vociferous protests in the Assam assembly yesterday. Now the policy will be discussed in January or February 2020
Is Harsh Goenka scared of criticizing the Modi government?
He tweeted a satirical tweet against the regime but quickly deleted it
CAB 2019 is not just Unconstitutional, it is meant to create communal divides
The proposed Citizenship amendment bill is an assault on...
Sri Lankan refugees, the persecuted people that CAB is forgetting
While considering granting citizenship to Non-Muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the Centre has been conspicuous in excluding the more than 1 lakh Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka.
Meeting held to oppose nationwide NRC-NPR
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Mumbra: At a meeting organized by Awaaz-e-Niswaan (Women’s voice)...
The Great Indian ‘CAB’cophony
The Cabinet has passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019 and its introduction is awaited in either houses of the Parliament any day now. The government expects and believes that the bill will be passed by the Parliament (both houses) by December 10. The opposition is unlikely to allow smooth sailing of the amendment that seriously alters the fundamentals of Indian citizenship
Why Opp MPs Strongly Dissented against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 and How
Dissent Note: Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016
Cutting the Ground: Human rights impact on forcible eviction
On November 29, the Human Land & Rights Network (HLRN) and Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC) released a collaborative report to present a comprehensive human rights assessment of the living conditions faced by persons evicted in 2006 from Porur Lake, Chennai— one of the earliest and largest eviction drives in the name of “restoration of water bodies” in Tamil Nadu.
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