Watch | 'Refugees Are People, Not Statistics,' Says Nandita Haksar
Human rights lawyer and author Nandita Haksar discusses her new book, international refugee law, the Indian government's position on refugees and more.
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"India should have a law to protect refugees but we do not have a law... Under strict Indian law, (refugees) are illegal; they are alien," says Nandita Haksar, human rights lawyer and author of the recently-released book, Forgotten Refugees: Two Iraqi Brothers in India.
In conversation with author and editor of FORCE magazine Ghazala Wahab, Haksar talks about international refugee law, the history of how it came to be, India's current position vis-à-vis these laws and more.
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