Citizen Amendment Act

Drishti: CAA Unpacked

Indian Government Press Releases & Statements

• Press Release from Ministry of Home Affairs: Status of CAA, NRC, and NPR
• Press Release: Parliament Passes the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019
• Shri Amit Shah distributes citizenship certificates...
• People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), "Repeal CAA, 2019 and Rules 2024"
• Ministry of External Affairs, Press Note March 2020
• Vice President of India, "CAA aims to provide relief to persecuted minorities..."

Other Press Releases & Official Statements

• Amnesty International, "CAA is a blow to India's constitutional values...."
• Human Rights Watch, "India activates discriminatory citizenship law"
• US Commission on International Religious Freedom, "USCIRF Raises alarm over India's CAA"
  • USCIRF CAA Fact Sheet
• Embassy of India, Sofia, Bulgaria, "Modi assures...CAA will not affect any Indian citizen"
• Council on American-Islamic Relations, "CAIR condemns Indian citizenship law"
• Policy Center for the New South, "The Indian Citizenship Amendment Act"

Indian News:

• Financial Express, "CAA rules - What changes as citizenship act comes into force?"
• NDTV, "CAA final draft likely by March-end"
• Decan Herald, "Congress will repeal CAA if voted to power: Pawan Khera"
• India Today, "Thalapathy Vijay slams Narendra Modi..."
• India Express, "CAA may violate certain articles of the Indian constitution"
• The Hindu, "CAA"
• Free Press Journal, "CAA Rules"
• Bar and Bench, "Anti-CAA protests await decision of the Supreme Court"

World News:

• BBC, "India's new citizenship amendment"
• Al Jazeera, "Human rights experts urge India to release anti-CAA protestors"

• Farhan Akhtar joins anti-CAA protest, says ‘raising voice is a democratic right’ (1:22)

• Lawyers on Debate: Against CAA vs. Pro CAA (8:59)

• Anti CAA Protests: Benglaru protestors detailed, citizenship showdown in city (4:50)

• Protests across India over citizenship law despite bans (some disturbing images) (2:59)

• Activist Umar Khalid on Muslim identity, CAA protests, and India's democracy (has a few seconds of someone eating meat) (11:50)