The Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO), formed in August 2007, is a coalition of twenty civil and democratic rights organizations from across India. The CDRO arose in the context of the violent state repression of people’s movements in India as well as the arrest of democratic rights activists.
CDRO affirms that:
• The right to organize and struggle is a basic democratic right of the people.
• To stand united against all forms of state repression on people’s democratic struggles.
• To support with solidarity actions in the event of attacks by the state on any civil rights organizations or its representatives.

The broad range of campaigns and issues that the CDRO has engaged with include, the repeal of brutal laws such as the UAPA, the MCOCA, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, and the Chhattisgarh Public Security Act, the arbitrary detention of Binayak Sen and several other political prisoners across jails in India, the increasing use of extra judicial, state-sponsored armed gangs such as the COBRAs in Andhra Pradesh and the Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh to combat the Maoist insurgency, death penalties by the Indian state, and narco analysis as a form of police torture.
The member organisations of the CDRO are:

Association for Democratic Rights (AFDR), Punjab;
Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC);
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), West Bengal;
Bandi Mukti Morcha (West Bengal);
Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR), Mumbai;
Coordination for Human Rights (COHR), Manipur;
Human Rights Forum (HRF),
Andhra Pradesh; Lokshahi Hakk Sangathana (LHS), Maharashtra;
Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS), Assam;
Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR);
Organisation for Protection of Democratic Rights (OPDR), Andhra Pradesh;
Peoples’ Committee for Human Rights (PCHR), Jammu and Kashmir;
Peoples Democratic Forum (PDF), Karnataka;
Peoples Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), Chhattisgarh;
Peoples Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), Jharkhand;
Peoples Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), Nagpur;
Peoples Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan;
Peoples Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), Tamil Nadu;
Peoples Union For Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi; and
Peoples Union for Human Rights (PUHR), Haryana.
Campaign for Peace & Democracy, Manipur

The member organizations of CDRO operate in a non hierarchical, democratic fashion and meet every year.