India

India 2020: Statement of Solidarity and Concern From Scholars in/of/from Aotearoa New Zealand

We, the undersigned scholars based in Aotearoa New Zealand universities, express our deep concern at the ongoing police violence and brutality being deployed across India in response to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 which the United Nations Human Rights Office has called ‘fundamentally discriminatory in nature’. This statement demonstrates solidarity with the protesters, some of whom are students and academic staff of universities in India.