Jun 6, 2011 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
People’s Union for Democratic Rights welcomes the recent judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in which it has struck down as ‘unconstitutional’ the practice of arming local tribal youth as special police officers (SPOs) in order to fight the Maoists. It has asked...
May 16, 2011 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
An All India Fact Finding team was constituted to look into some incidents of alleged encounter and false implication of villagers in anti-Maoist operation. While Team One covered incidents in Malkangiri and Kashipur, Team Two went to Sundergarh District of Odisha....
Sep 8, 2009 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
Following reports of attacks on tribals, institution of numerous cases and arrests of those associated with the Shramik Adivasi Sangathan in Harda district, People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) sent a four-member team to conduct a fact-finding. The...
Feb 5, 2008 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Working Class
PUDR is deeply concerned about the escalating situation in Chauranga, near Raipur, following the adamant insistence of the factory owner, supported by the administration, in starting work at the Raipur Sponge Iron Power Ltd factory there, in blatant disregard of the...
Jan 16, 2006 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS To The Chief Minister, Government of Orissa 16 January 2006 Sir, Re: Police Firing on Protestors in Kalinga Nagar, Jajpur District, Orissa We are deeply shocked by the brutal firing on protestors in Kalinga Nagar, Jajpur District...
Jul 16, 2005 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
Kashipur, Rayagada district and nearby areas in southwest Orissa have been in the news for a number of bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects being set up by the Orissa government in association with various Indian and foreign mining companies. From the very...
