India, Jan. 4 -- It could not have been ignorant of the international conventions and their similarities with the CAA.

According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), India's Citizenship Amendment Act is "fundamentally discriminatory in nature" and "undermine[s] the commitment to equality before the law".

This claim flies in the face of the fact that international laws on refugees and displaced persons are very similar to the CAA. These laws, which are followed by many countries, are governed by the Constitution of the International Refugee Organization and the 1951 Refugee Convention of the United Nations, which, in turn, incorporate earlier arrangements related to the treatment of refugees in...