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...
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Fact- finding visit to Niyamgir – Lanjigada area by CDRO and GASS
A 16-member fact-finding team of All India Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) and Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan, Odisha (GASS) had been to Niyamgiri area and Vedanta Plant site, Lanjigada and spent three days from 26th to 28th April, 2019...
Condemn Killing of Legislator and Four Others in Dantewada: Demand violence free elections
People’s Union of Democratic Rights (PUDR) strongly condemns the Maoist attack in Dantewada in which BJP legislator Bhima Mandavi, three security personnel travelling with him and the driver of the vehicle have been killed. Carried out yesterday, two days before polls...
Lawful Government, Unlawful Acts: Revoke the Ban on JKLF!
The attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama in mid-February and the escalating tensions between India & Pakistan following Balakot air strikes, have provided ample occasion for the Indian state to use draconian laws to further suppress the democratic aspirations and...
‘कंटिन्युइंग इंप्यूनिटी: डेथ्स इन पुलिस कस्टडी, दिल्ली 2016-2018’– दिल्ली में हुई 2016 से 2018 के बीच पुलिस हिरासत में मौतों पर एक जांच रिपोर्ट के प्रकाशन पर
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स (पी.यू.डी.आर) 1980 के दशक से ही दिल्ली की पुलिस हिरासत में होने वाली मौतों पर तथ्यान्वेषण को रिपोर्ट के जरिये से सामने लाता रहा है | इन पड़तालों में पी.यू.डी.आर ने अक्सर यह पाया कि पुलिस हिरासत में दी जाने वाली यातानाएँ गैर-इरादतन...
Publication and release of PUDR’s report ‘Continuing Impunity: Deaths in Police Custody, Delhi 2016-2018’
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) has been investigating incidents of deaths in police custody and publishing reports on these from the 1980s. These investigations revealed that these deaths were most commonly the unintentional consequences of custodial...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
