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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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...
गौमांस पर प्रतिबंध और मौलिक अधिकारों का हनन – कुछ आयाम
भारतीय जनता पार्टी सरकार ने अपने 2014 के चुनाव पत्र में गौमांस पर प्रतिबंध और गौसंरक्षण को एक बड़ा मुद्दा बनाया था। इसी को अमल में लाते हुए, मार्च 2015 से महाराष्ट्र व हरियाणा में गौहत्या प्रतिबंधी कानूनों को पारित करने और उनमें संशोधन लाने का सिलसिला शुरू हुआ। तब से...
Banned and Damned: SIMI’s Saga with UAPA Tribunals
PEOPLES UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS has long held that freedoms conferred by the Constitution as well as those that flow from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), are intrinsic to our pursuit of democratic rights. These ‘freedoms’ are not...
Tailor-made Lives: Accidents and Discontent Among the Garment Industry Workers in Udyog Vihar, Haryana
On 12 February 2015, hundreds of workers of garment factories at Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, came out on the streets and pelted stones at some of the garment factory buildings in response to the rumour of the death of a fellow worker. The incident was widely reported in...
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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...
पीयूडीआर 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 जैसे, इंडस्ट्रीयल डिस्पयूट्स अधिनियम (1947), फ़ैक्ट्रीज़ अधिनियम (1948), आदि का सुरक्षा कवच उपलब्ध नहीं होगा। इनमें से कुछ क़ाननू तो भारत की आज़ादी के साथ लाए गए...
Framed to Die: The Case of Stan Swamy
PUDR’s report, Framed to Die: The Case of Stan Swamy, offers an exhaustive account of what lay behind Stan Swamy’s death in judicial custody in a private hospital on 5 July 2021. As is known, he was arrested from his room in Bagaicha ATC campus on 8 October 2020 under...
Condemn CRPF firing on protestors in Silanger village in Sukma district
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) condemns the turn of events at Silanger village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh over the past two weeks. On 12 May, a CRPF camp was set up at the Silanger village despite protests by the residents of nearby villages. On 17...
Immediately withdraw draft rules under the Industrial Relations Code
On 4 May 2021, the Central Government’s Ministry of Labour and Employment notified certain Draft Rules under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, one of the 4 Labour Codes passed by Parliament in 2019-20. The Industrial Relations Code 2020 (henceforth ‘IR Code’)...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
