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Mexico, like US, extends birthright citizenship to children born on its soilIn Tijuana, a Haitian restaurant owner finds a new home as her granddaughter becomes a Mexican citizen, highlighting Mexico's birthright ci...
'Stateless overnight': Kuwait strips tens of thousands of citizenshipKuwait is revoking the citizenship of tens of thousands of people, primarily women naturalized through marriage, under the guise of reform....
Half a million stateless people got citizenship in past decade: UNThe UN said Friday that in the decade since it launched a campaign to end the limbo of statelessness, over half a million people without a ...
Facebook ordered to release records on closed Myanmar accountsIn his ruling on Wednesday, Washington DC district court Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui criticised the social media giant for refusing to pro...
UNHRC skirting around cross-border terror issue in J&K: Jaishankar at ET GBS 2020India has tried to reduce the number of stateless people in the country through the CAA and that should be appreciated, foreign minister S ...
ET GBS 2020: Government reassures minorities on Citizenship ActThe PM set the tone on Friday when, in his address, he questioned the Opposition’s double-speak and termed the CAA as well as other measure...
Necessary to prevent statelessness when nationality laws are changed: UN chief"It is absolutely essential when a nationality law is changed, the statelessness is prevented. Because when basic right of anyone anywhere ...
View: India on a slippery slope towards an ethno-national stateThe Statement of Objects and Reasons justifies the amendment by reference to the religious persecution of minorities in these countries, bu...
Disappointed over NRC being wrongly linked with issue of minority rights: India at UNFirst Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripath said updating the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) is a statutor...
92% of J&K curb-free, says India after UNHRC chief’s comment on KashmirCongress’ Shashi Tharoor says opposition with PM Modi on the matter; Michelle Bachelet also raises NRC.
UN rights chief asks India, Pakistan to respect and protect human rights of KashmirisBachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said her office continues to receive reports on the human rights situation on both sid...
Complete breakdown of governance under Modi govt 2.0: CongressCongress spokesperson Manish Tewari said the 96 days of the NDA government's second term were characterised by three words -- "tyranny, cha...
Assam is on the brink of a crisis: Aakar Patel, Amnesty IndiaAmnesty International India strongly urged the Assam Government to ensure that the Foreigners Tribunals function with utmost transparency.
Asian Legal Resource Centre urges UN rights body to look into Assam’s draft NRCThe NRC draft as it stands has far-reaching consequences not only for the country, but also for South Asia as a region and the world, it sa...
All India United Democratic Front sees conspiracy in NRC draft to lessen Muslim populationWhile All Assam Students Union (Aasu) which led the six year long anti-foreigners stir which culminated in signing of Assam Accord in 1985 ...
Upset by US stand on migrants? Bigger crisis is brewing in AssamThe process of identifying citizens could be approached sensibly, and carried out fairly and humanely.
Why Sophia is in newsSophia said she wanted to use her artificial intelligence to help humans 'live a better life', and that 'I will do much [sic] best to make ...
NDA govt looking at foreigners permanent stay in India through prism of religion: Asaduddin OwaisiCiting the example of Sri Lankan Tamils, Owaisi, the Hyderabad MP, claimed that the Rohingya Muslims can be shifted from one camp to anothe...
Hindraf to solve problems faced by ethnic Indians in MalaysiaHindu Rights Action Force chairman P Waythamoorthy has promised to solve the problems faced by Malaysia's minority ethnic Indian community.
Petty and Dangerous: Mamata Banerjee stalls engagement with Dhaka, weakening a friendly regimeOn the issue of exchanging Indians and Bangladeshis trapped on each others’ sides of the international border, Mamata Banerjee is dead wron...