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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‘Quit India’: Ban, Deportation Rights of Nepali People
On 5 September 2002, a posse of policemen dressed in civil clothes came to the house of Bam Dev Chhetri on JNU old campus in Delhi. After some twenty minutes or so, they took Bam Dev Chhetri away. His illiterate wife, and two teenage sons, had no idea of why the...
Freedom Fettered: Arrest and Detention of Journalist Iftikar Gilani
Journalist organisations as well as the Editors Guilds vociferously campaigned against the promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). They found in POTA certain clauses which seemed to be aimed directly against media organisations and media persons. The...
SHIFTING SITES: Workers resistance at Honda Power Products
On 25 February 2002, the management of Honda SIEL Power Products Ltd., situated at Rudrapur in Uttaranchal, attempted to remove core machinery from the factory. They wish to shift the factory's aluminium shop to their plant in Greater Noida, U.P. The attempt was...
आज यहीं तो कल कहीं: पूँजी पलायन और मजदूरों के अधिकार, हौंडा पॉवर प्रोडक्ट्स रुद्रपुर की कहानी
रिपोर्ट रुद्रपुर, उत्तरांचल स्थित जेनसेट बनाने वाली हौंडा सिएल पॉवर प्रोडक्ट्स लिमिटेड में धीरे- धीरे फैक्ट्री को बंद करने की कोशिश के खिलाफ कर्मचारियों के संघर्ष की दास्ताँ सामने रखती है| इस रिपोर्ट में बहुत स्पष्ट तरीके से उत्पादन के बदलते तरीकों को रेखंकित किया गया...
Maaro! Kaapo! Baalo!: State, Society and Communalism in Gujarat.
After the burning of a railway compartment in Godhara in 2002, in which 57 Hindus died, the country witnessed one of the worst state sponsored genocide in Gujarat that continued for over three months. Attacks on Muslims took place in 19 districts of the state...
Latest Press Statements
Do not curb our right to protest
Right to protest has been coming under attack under one or other pretext. Earlier public order was the way in which our right to protest was curtailed by imposing IPC Section 144 on large parts of the Delhi city to prevent gathering of more than five persons. People...
Life under threat in Jail: Increasing incidents of attacks on prisoners in Tihar
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses grave concern at the increasing incidents of violent attacks and gang wars in jail which severely threaten the life and security of the inmates. The Tihar jail authorities have faltered in fulfilling their...
Condemn the arrest of peasant leader and RTI activist, Akhil Gogoi
PUDR condemns the arrest of peasant leader and RTI activist, Akhil Gogoi on charges of sedition and waging war by Assam police. Gogoi’s arrest is yet again a glaring example of the state’s frenzy in crushing political opposition by the use of repressive laws. Gogoi as...
भगवा ब्रिगेड के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों की खुलेआम हो रही हत्याओं का सिलसिला कब तक?
पीयूडीआर पत्रकार गौरी लंकेश की हत्या की कड़ी निंदा करता है | ‘गौरी लंकेश पत्रिका’ की संपादक लंकेश की 5 सितंबर को बेंगलुरु में उनके घर के बाहर गोली मारकर हत्या कर दी गई | कन्नड़ भाषा में प्रकाशित इस पत्रिका के माध्यम से गौरी लगातार जाति व्यवस्था, अंधविश्वास, कट्टरपंथी...
वीवो इंडिया प्राइवेट लिमिटेड में श्रमिकों के शोषण और उत्पीड़न की निंदा करें।
‘मेक इन इण्डिया’ अभियान और बहुराष्ट्रीय कम्पनियों को भारत में निर्माण करने के लिए न्यौता देने से रोज़गार पैदा होने के इसके दावे को काम के भयावह और अमानवीय ‘अवसरों’ के रूप में देखा गया है जिसका प्रत्यक्ष उदाहरण वीवो इण्डिया प्राइवेट लिमिटेड है। वीवो कम्पनी एक चीनी...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
