Aug 16, 2016 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is horrified that the Rajya Sabha which debated the situation in Jammu and Kashmir on August 10, could not muster resolve to call for an immediate halt to use of pellet guns, which is not used anywhere in either India or the world...
Jul 18, 2016 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
After bullets, pellets, deaths; after curfew, clampdowns on mobile internet and on cable television, the Indian state has further exacerbated the war on people in Kashmir. On the night of 15 July 2016, the police raided, seized and shut down the printing presses of...
Jul 6, 2016 | Undemocratic Laws
पीयूडीआर देश भर में पुलिस और गौरक्षक दलों एवं हिन्दुत्ववादी संगठनों की मिलीभगत से ‘गौरक्षा’ के नाम पर दिनों-दिन हो रहे मूल अधिकारों के हनन की कड़ी निंदा करता है | देश के लगभग हर हिस्से में खासकर उत्तर प्रदेश, हरियाणा, पंजाब, महाराष्ट्र, मध्य प्रदेश और...
Jun 30, 2016 | Undemocratic Laws
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) Open Letter to Minister for Women and Child Development 30th June 2016 Subject: The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016 ACCUSED HENCE GUILTY Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR)...
Jun 30, 2016 | Others, Undemocratic Laws
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) notes with concern provisions of the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016. The Bill seeks to prevent trafficking of persons and to provide protection and rehabilitation to the victims...
Feb 16, 2016 | Undemocratic Laws
PUDR has continually critiqued the existence of the colonial law of sedition and its unconstitutional application at the behest of those who hold state power, in cases that do not stand the test of law. The arrest of SAR Geelani, Professor at the University of Delhi,...