Login With Google
U.S. report takes note of CAA, NRC
Why it is in news?
- The U.S. State Department has released its annual International Religious Freedom (IRF) Report, a survey of the state of religious freedom across the world, submitted to the U.S. Congress.
More on news:
- The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent bipartisan commission and separate from the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom.
- It has, in April, recommended to Secretary of State that the State Department downgrade India’s religious freedom to the lowest grade — Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
- The Secretary of State is not obliged to accept the recommendation and has not always done so.
- The country report for India, which looks back on the developments in 2019, takes note of the change in the status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).