Assam detention centres for ‘foreigners’ renamed ‘transit camps’

A notification issued by the Assam government on Tuesday says the nomenclature of the "Detention centre…

Detention centers can never be a legitimate state response to migration and no human being is illegal: Public statement

Collective Against Detention (CAD) and Right to Nationality and Citizenship Network (RNCN), two rights watchdogs, unequivocally…

68 ‘foreigners’ shifted to Assam’s new “Transit Camp”

The first batch of at least 68 people declared as “foreigners” by Assam authorities were moved…

31 “declared foreigners” died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Data

A total of 31 persons who were declared foreigners have died in Assam’s six detention centres…

Being excluded from NRC affects every stage of life: Assam scholar Abdul Kalam Azad

Abdul Kalam Azad is a human rights researcher, community worker, and writer based in Assam. He…

Assam NRC; A humanitarian crisis looming large

Centre for Study of Society and Secularism Fact Finding Report on Assam NRC

Declaring 4 million people ‘illegal’. Sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from Assam

Fear is conquering the lives of Bengali community in Assam. The names of about four million…

Policing, militancy, growing Hindutva violence; Why is anti-civilian violence rising in India?

The German military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz said “War is nothing but the continuation of policy…