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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खेल खतम पैसा हज़म
राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल के निर्माण कार्य में मजदुरों के शोषण की कहानी पर एक रिपोर्ट. To download the report, click below: खेल खतम पैसा...
Of Human Bondage: An Account of Hostage Taking in Bastar
An event of great political and historical significance occurred on 11 February 2011 inside the dense forests of Abujhmad in Chhattisgarh with the CPI (Maoist) releasing five policemen of the Chhattisgarh police force, abducted by them on 25 January 2011, before a...
Condemn the Unfair Trial and Conviction of Dr. Binayak Sen and Others
Let us strongly protest against the conviction order of the Sessions Court at Raipur sentencing Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment, because the conviction of all three in this case is based on flimsy, unsubstantiated and fabricated...
Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process (CDRO Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey)
This report was released by the CDRO investigation team in Delhi on 8th October 2010 after a fact-finding of the so-called encounter place and also meeting the local villagers, local police and local media personnel and after pursuing the FIR, inquest and postmortem...
अधूरे वादे: हरदा में जंगल एवं जमीन के लिए संघर्ष
To download the report, click below: अधूरे वादे: हरदा में जंगल एवं जमीन के लिए संघर्ष For the English version of the report, click below: Unkept Promises: The Struggle for Forests, Land and Wages in...
Latest Press Statements
Condemning the Abduction and Killings of Police Personnel in Shopian, Kashmir
PUDR strongly condemns the abduction and slaying of one constable and two Special Police Officers (SPOs) by unidentified militants in the Shopian district of Kashmir.The deceased identified as Nisar Ahmad Dhobi (aged 38), Firdous Ahmad Kuchey (aged 28) and Kulwant...
Stop suppression of the right to defend civil rights!: PUDR Condemns Smear Campaign by Maharashtra Police
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly protests the accusation by the Maharashtra police claiming that the PUDR is a frontal organisation of the CPI (Maoist) party. This is a blatant attempt to threaten and restrict the functioning of one of...
नागरिक अधिकारों के पक्ष में उठती आवाज़ों को कुचलना बंद करो!: महाराष्ट्र पुलिस द्वारा पीयूडीआर को बदनाम करने की कोशिश की निंदा!
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स महाराष्ट्र पुलिस द्वारा पीयूडीआर पर सीपीआई (माओइस्ट) पार्टी का ‘फ्रंटल’ संगठन होने के दावे की कड़ी निंदा करता है | यह खुलेआम, भारत के एक सबसे पुराने जनवादी संगठन को धमकी देने और उसके काम पर रोक लगाने की कोशिश है | पीयूडीआर और...
THE MISSING TERROR PLOT: BHIMA KOREGAON and the POLITICS OF UAPA
In the wake of the recent raids and arrests of 5 prominent rights activists, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Arun Ferreira, on UAPA charges for their alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon case, PUDR is releasing its report, The...
Joint Statement Against Continuing Arrests of Rights Activists
We, the undersigned, strongly oppose and condemn the illegal raids carried out in different cities, and arrests of Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao by the Maharashtra Police on 28 th August 2018. These are only the...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
