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CAA, NRC raised during Congressional hearing on global human rights
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- The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register for Citizens (NRC) found mention again in a hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives, which heard witnesses testify on religious persecution across the world.
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- More about the hearing
(1) Organised by: Foreign Affairs Committee’s Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights Subcommittee and the Oversight and Reform Committee’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee.
(2) The hearing dealt with experiences in a range of countries and topics including Nigeria, Uganda, Egypt, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and the United States. India was also specifically mentioned.
(3) Bencosme, who specialises on advocacy in the Asia Pacific region, told lawmakers about India that
- “The country this past year tops the world in the number of internet shutdowns”
- The CAA was “completely oblivious to the nature and scale of persecution faced by minorities”
- On the NRC, he said the process “stands to create the biggest statelessness crisis in the world, causing immense human suffering.”
Source
The Hindu