Jul 5, 2013 | Adivasis, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) strongly condemns the brutal and horrifying murder of Ganti Prasadam, the former leader of the Maoist Party and present honorary President of Amarula Bandumitrula Committee, by the state sponsored criminal gang....
May 31, 2013 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) notes with concern the sad loss of 30 lives in the Maoist attack on the “Parivartan Rally” of Congress Party on 25 May 2013. This is the latest in the series of killings, big and small, in the ongoing undeclared war that...
May 13, 2013 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR unequivocally condemns the undemocratic ways of the Odisha government in trying to further corporate interests under the rhetoric of development, subjecting the locals to repression, displacement and a threat to survival. The arrest of Abhay Sahu, leader of the...
Mar 12, 2013 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) at its meeting held during February 20-21 gave permission to the public sector SAIL to divert 210.526 ha of forest land in Jhillingburu of Saranda (Jharkhand) for iron ore mining. This was the second such project cleared by the FAC...
Feb 11, 2013 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Dandapani Mohanty, a social rights activist in Odisha was illegally abducted by plainclothes policemen and has been detained under cases related to incidents that occurred in 2009 and 2010. Additionally, non bailable sections of the draconian UAPA have been foisted on...
Jan 30, 2013 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
It has been over a decade since Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar into a separate state. In this period the state has witnessed a new face of people’s movements against displacement and armed repression by the state. News of the multitude of growing people’s movements...
