Submissions and Briefing Notes

Submissions

Children, Climate Mobility and Statelessness: In partnership with the Kaldor Centre and UTS, this submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends that a Draft General Comment on the Environment and Climate Change include specific language about the protection of children who are displaced (or at risk of displacement) or stateless (or at risk of becoming stateless) in the context of climate change, disasters or environmental degradation. March 2023 View PDF
Joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council for Australia’s Universal Periodic Review with partners ISI; RACS and SNAP. July 2020 View PDF
Response to World Bank ID4D call for consultation on Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development. March 2020 View PDF
Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee in relation to its Inquiry into Nationhood, national identity and democracy November 2019 View PDF
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in relation to its Review of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Cessation) Bill 2019 October 2019 View PDF
Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee in relation to the Migration Amendment (Repairing Medical Transfers) Bill 2019 August 2019 View PDF
Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee in relation to the Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2019 [Provisions] August 2019 View PDF
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in relation to its Review of the Australian Citizenship renunciation by conduct and cessation provisions August 2019 View PDF
Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee in relation to the Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test) Bill 2019. August 2019 View PDF
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in relation to the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders Bill). March 2019. View PDF
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, as contribution to its Advisory Report on the Australian Citizenship Amendment, January 2019. View PDF
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues regarding Statelessness and legal identity issues among ethnic Vietnamese minority populations in Cambodia, in partnership with Minority Rights Organization (MIRO), Cambodia, May 2018. View PDF

Briefing Notes

Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 and International Law

Published 1 April 2021

A Legal Brief prepared by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, the Asian Law Centre, and the Institute for International Law and the Humanities.

This legal brief considers the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (‘CAA’) and its compliance with India’s international legal obligations. India’s treaty and customary obligations are outlined, with a primary focus on the conflict between the CAA and the principles of non-discrimination and the prohibition on arbitrary deprivation of nationality.

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Citizenship, Constitutionalism and Civil Liberties - A Briefing Note on Recent Developments in India

Published 17 July 2020
Revised 4 August 2020

Indian Citizenship and Statelessness Research Project Briefing Note prepared by the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness and the Asian Law Centre.

India’s Constitution commits it to democracy, equality, secularism, asymmetrical federalism and the protection of civil liberties, including freedom of speech and religious freedom. Nevertheless, each of these commitments is now under threat from authoritarian nationalism.

This note offers a brief summary of developments in India, primarily over 2019-2020, relating to (I) risks of statelessness and (II) authoritarian nationalism.

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