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 1977 as the Delhi unit of a larger national forum, PUCLDR, and became PUDR on 1 February, 1981.
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Rishipal’s Death: The Cost of Friendship in Anti-Dalit Haryana
The report narrates the findings of the fact-finding team comprising Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and Peoples Union for Civil Rights (PUCR), Haryana into the suicide of 22-year old dalit boy, Rishipal. Rishipal was implicated as an accomplice in the...
Dead Wrong: Why was Dhananjoy Chatterjee hanged?
Dead Wrong: Why was Dhananjoy Chatterjee Hanged? is a report that questions the judicial decision to hang Dhananjoy Chatterjee on 14th August 2004 in Kolkata’s Alipore Correctional Home. Chatterjee, a security guard, was awarded the death penalty for the rape and...
The Murder of Yakub Abdul Hassan Shaikh: A Conspiracy of Silence Between Toyota Shinrai Management and the Police Department
The gruesome daylight murder of a 56-year-old man in a Toyota showroom in the heart of Mumbai ought to have made front-page news. Further, that Yakub Abdul Hassan Shaikh, a father of 3, was murdered by his co-workers, a day after the Dadri lynching, on 29th September...
धागों में उलझी ज़िंदगियाँ: उधोग विहार, गुड़गाँव के कपडा उद्योग के मज़दूरों के बीच हादसों और असंतोष की दास्तान
उद्योग विहार की कपड़ा फक्ट्रियों में हादसों की सूची बढ़ती जा रही है | 20 जून 2015 को ओरियेंट क्राफ्ट नामक फैक्ट्री के 'फिनिशिंग' विभाग में काम करने वाले एक मज़दूर पवन कुमार को लिफ्ट का प्रयोग करते समय बिजली के झटके लगे थे और वह घायल हो गया था | खबर सुनते ही कई मज़दूर...
Justice Kait Tribunal on SIMI: A Critical Update
On July 30, 2014, Justice Kait headed SIMI Tribunal upheld the ban after examining 21 cases, 18 of which were “fresh cases” and examining 30 state officials in “support of the ban” and concluded that: “the evidence brought on record clearly and unambiguously...
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REVOKE UAPA AND OTHER CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST FACT-FINDING TEAM MEMBERS
The invocation of UAPA charges against members of a fact-finding team shortly after they released its findings on the communal violence in Tripura, is shocking and condemnable. Besides S. 13 of UAPA (punishment for ‘unlawful activity’), a slew of IPC offences has also...
Condemn the solitary confinement and continuing harassment of the Bhima Koregaon accused by Taloja Central Jail authorities! Stop punishing political prisoners for their beliefs!
The high handedness of the Taloja Central Jail administration was evident in the events leading to the death of the octogenarian Bhima Koregaon undertrail, Stan Swamy on July 5, 2021. Almost immediately, the remaining BK undertrials protested the arbitrary jail...
पीयडीआर रिपोर्ट – “द ऐंटी लेबर कोड्ज़”
आज़ादी की 75वीं वर्षगाँठ र्ष पर देश के मज़दरूों के लिए आज़ादी के बाद लगभग पहली बार कई ज़रूरी श्रम क़ाननू जसै े, इंडस्ट्रीयल डिस्प्यट्ूस अधिनियम (1947), फ़ैक्ट्रीज़ अधिनियम (1948), आदि का सरुक्षा कवच उपलब्ध नहीं होगा। इनमें सेकुछ क़ाननू तो भारत की आज़ादी के साथ लाए गए...
RELEASE OF PUDR’S REPORT: “Behind the veil of algorithms: Invisible workers” -A Report on Workers in the ‘Gig’ Economy
The growth of the ‘gig’ economy and ‘gig workers’ in India is a phenomenon of the last decade or so. Names like Swiggy, Zomato, Ola, Uber or Urban Company and Amazon are among the many companies that have come in to provide ‘services’ and ‘employment’ in the form of...
RELEASE OF PUDR’S REPORT: ‘The Anti-Labour Codes’
The 75th Independence Day of India is practically the first for workers in the country without the official protection of crucial labour laws, like the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, the Factories Act, 1948 among others. Some of these laws are as old as the country’s...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
