Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure- Stateless citizens elegy: Part 2- Legal sanction for SOP
In Part 1 of this blog, I argued that Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) imposes arbitrary procedural requirements and stringent timelines that impede suspected foreigners’ access to relief before constitutional...
Assam’s Standard Operating Procedure – Stateless Citizens Elegy: Part 1- On Arbitrariness of Procedural requirements of SOP
On 9.09.2025, Assam’s Chief Minister approved the Standard Operating Procedure (‘SOP’) for implementation of the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam ) Act 1950 (‘Act’), thereby empowering the state government to bypass...
The Maternal Imperative: Birthright Citizenship as a Cornerstone of Women’s Rights and Global Human Dignity
To deny a woman’s right to confer citizenship is to deny her full humanity. This assertion encapsulates the critical human rights issue in the United States concerning birthright citizenship (jus...
