-Economic and Political Weekly In recent years, the Indian official data has been challenged for many reasons, most of them arising out of the perception that the government is reluctant to release unfavourable data. These doubts have been exacerbated by the controversy posed by the debate around Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Population Register, and National Register of Citizens and the weakening of established institutions like the National Statistical Commission. The COVID-19...
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More than 1,100 feminists issue solidarity statement condemning police crackdown on anti-CAA-NPR-NRC protestors during COVID-19 lockdown
-Press note by Feminists Against CAA, dated 3rd May, 2020 More than 1,100 women and feminists all across the globe have joined hands to protest against the detention and arrest of 800+ anti-Citizenship Amendment Act activists. A statement has been issued to condemn the crackdown on anti-CAA-NPR-NRC activists (including Muslim men and women) in Delhi. Please click here to access the statement. Please click here to access the list of signatories. For...
More »Women Write to CMs, Seek Delinking of NPR from Census 2021
-Newsclick.in About 1,000 women lawyers, academics and organisations have sent letters to all chief ministers, ahead of the updation process likely to begin on April 1. New Delhi: About 1,000 women lawyers, academics, anganwadi workers and organisations from 20 states have written letters to all chief ministers of the country, flagging to them the ‘grave danger’ to women due to linking the updation of NPR with the house listing of Census 2021. Releasing...
More »‘NPR a step towards divisive citizenship regime’
-The Hindu Rights groups demand amendments to 2003 citizenship rules Two umbrella organisations of NGOs and rights groups on Saturday said that they would withdraw their call for boycott of the National Population Register (NPR) if Home Minister Amit Shah made amendments to the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, according to the statements made by the latter in the floor of the Parliament. The statements were...
More »Delhi Assembly passes resolution against NPR, NRC
-PTI “Me, my wife, my entire cabinet don’t have birth certificates to prove citizenship. Will we be sent to detention centres?” Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asked. The Delhi Assembly passed a resolution on Friday against the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). At the one-day special session, which was held to discuss the NPR and the NRC, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal requested the Centre to withdraw them. Please click...
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