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CAA will cause Muslims to face exclusion: U.S. panel
Why is it in news?
- The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a fact sheet on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).
- It said that with the CAA in place, Muslims would primarily bear the punitive consequences of exclusion from the NRC which could include ‘statelessness, deportation, or prolonged detention.
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- USCIRF
(1) mThe USCIRF describes itself as an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission that was created by The International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).
(2) What is IRFA?
(a) The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 was passed by the 105th US Congress (1997-99) and signed into law by the then President Bill Clinton on October 27, 1998.
(b) It is a statement of the United States’s concern over violations of religious freedoms overseas.
(3) Mandate of USCIRF: The USCIRF is mandated by US statute to “monitor the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad — not in the United States — using international standards to do so and makes policy recommendations to the President, Secretary of State, and Congress.
Source
The Hindu