The United Nations Human Rights Commission has expressed concern over the Citizenship Amendment Bill in India, stating that the new law is fundamentally discriminatory.

In a statement issued on Friday by UNHCR, the human rights monitoring body, "We are concerned that the nature of India's new citizenship amendment law is fundamentally discriminatory."

The organization has said that the new law talks of giving citizenship to religious minorities who have come to escape oppression in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, but do not provide this facility to Muslims.

UNHCR has written that all migrants, irrespective of their circumstances, have the right to respect, security and their human rights.

The statement issued by a UNHCR spokesman hoped that the Supreme Court would review the new law and carefully review whether these laws were in line with India's obligations on international human rights.

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