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3 Sep: PUDR unequivocally condemns the killing of Bihar policeman Lukas Tete by Maoists. Details...

1 Sep: DMRC affidavit reveals death of 109 workers on the construction site since 2003 Details...

30 AUG: PUDR releases follow up report on violation of workers' rights at CWG Details...

22 Aug: CDRO finds the encounter with Azad as fake CDRO team releases the Preliminary Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey sed to the media at Hyderabad on 22 August, 2010, In the report the team has raised important question on the alleged ecounter between members of Moaoist and people and killing of Cherukuri Rajkumar @ Azad.    Details...

18 August PUDR condemns the arrest of Naba Dutta of Nargrik Manch   Details...

6 July: PUDR urges the Government to Stop the continuing killings of innocent civilians in Kashmir
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20 June: PUDR strongly condemns the unwarranted arrests and detention of three members of a fact finding team investigating into the atrocities committed by the police and the paramilitary forces in Lalgarh on June 15, 2010.   Details...

9 June: PUDR believes that the latest judgment on the Bhopal gas leak of 1984 is a complete farce and absolutely criminal in the gap between the enormity of the crime and the punishment meted out to the offenders, a direct reflection of the gap between the social location of the victims and the accused. Details...

30 May: Gyaneshwari Express Sabotage Indefensible Institute Inquiry and Discourage Rumour-mongering and Witch-hunting

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25 May: PUDR holds press conference on arrests of farmer and worker activists in Punjab
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18 May: PUDR strongly condemns the recent CPI (Maoist) attack on SPOs and civilians in Dantewada Details...

7 May: CDRO condemn government’s threat to use UAPA to constrain freedom of expression Details...

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8 Oct: PUDR condemn the gruesome killing of Inspector Induwar by Maoist People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) unequivocally condemns the gruesome killing of Inspector Francis Induwar by the Maoists in Jharkhand. Details...

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Over the last 20-30 years, the civil rights movement in India has emerged as an autonomous voice in defense of civil liberties and democratic rights of our people. The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, is one such organisation. It came into existence in 1976-77 as the Delhi unit of a larger national forum, and became PUDR on 1 February, 1981.

In the last two and a half decades of its existence the organisation has taken up hundreds of instances of violations of democratic rights, covering most parts of the country and involving the rights of many sections of society. PUDR conducts investigations, issues statements, distributes leaflets, organizes public meetings, demonstrations and dharnas, and fights legal cases to highlight the violation of peoples rights, and to help towards their redressal. PUDR also takes up issues of general importance that affect the rights of people through general campaigns, publications and legal interventions. These include: gender equality; rights of forest-dwellers and forest policy; working class rights; agrarian conflict; caste oppression; deaths, rapes and torture in police custody; and undemocratic legislation, in particular the various incarnations of the 'terrorist act' (TADA and POTA) etc. PUDR is actively engaged in legal defense of civil liberties and democratic rights. It has taken up hundreds of cases in the last two decades, including many of constitutional importance, such as the Asiad labour petition which opened the doors to public interest litigation in India. PUDR is an entirely voluntary organisation. Members are not paid for their time, and funds are generated entirely from sale of its literature and from small donations. PUDR does not accept foreign funds, or funds from any institutional funding agencies, foreign or national.

There are many democratic rights and civil liberties organisations in India, who work closely with each other. Apart from PUDR, there is the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC), the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights, (APDR), West Bengal, the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, (PUCL) and many others. We hope that you will join us in the cause of protecting and extending democratic rights and civil liberties in India, in whatever way you are able to.

25^th Annual Ramanatham Memorial Meeting

Topic: Unorganised Workers, Rights and Struggles

Speakers: Kamala Sankaran, Prabhu Mohapatra

Date: Saturday, 11 September 2010 Time: 5.30 to 8.30 pm.

Venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation (near ITO), New Delhi

Constitution of PUDR

Note: PUDR is a non funded organisation which exists on sale of its publication and contribution. Please either subscribe or contribute to donation through cheque/draft favouring PUDR of not more than Rs 2000. Contribution not accepted in foreign currency.

Latest Publications
109 Deaths in DMRC’s Construction Sites (Worker) Games the State Plays (2010) CDRO Preliminary report on the killing of CPI (Maoist) leader Azad and H. C Pandey in fake encounter (Environment) Resolution adopted at All India Convention Against Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) (Undemocratic Laws) Supreme Court Judgment on Narco Ananlysis (Important Judgments)

Most Downloaded Publications

Why Must Dhananjay Chatterjee Die?(Leaflets/ Parchas) (2603)

In the Name of National Pride: Blatant Violation of Workers' Rights at the Commonwealth Games site(Worker) (2073)

CONSTITUTION Of PEOPLE'S UNION fOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS(CONSTITUTION OF PUDR) (1901)

Narco Analysis, Torture and Democratic Rights(2008) (1808)

Fettered Lives: Contract Labour Jawahar Lal Nehru University(2007) (1748)