Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019
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Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019
Subject – Polity
Context – BJP President J P Nadda was joined by Union cabinet minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, in showering praise on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019.
Concept –
- The CAA was never meant to help asylum seekers and protect persecuted people.
To know about CAA, please click here.
Refugee –
- The definition of a refugee in Article 1A (2) of the United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees, 1951, involves people who are unable to avail the protection of the state of which they are nationals and are forced to flee outside their countries’ borders due to a “well-founded fear of persecution” based on their “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion”.
