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.
Latest Publications
Not Another Terrorist Law Please: A Critique of the Proposed Criminal Law Amendment Bill
UDR and other civil rights organisations 'have time and again attempted to chronicle the immense human suffering that the earlier TADA inflicted on hundreds of ordinary men and women detained under it. This suffering was not an outcome of 'stray cases of abuse' but...
Workers’ Death and Working Lives: Accident at Virgo Washing Co., Okhla Industrial Estate
In one of the most serious industrial accidents in Delhi in recent years, six workers died from an explosion and fire in a fabric-washing factory within the Okhla Industrial Estate on 16 September. Twelve workers were inside the factory at the time. The accident took...
Raped and Condemned: Custodial Rape of a Sex Worker
On 30 September 1999, a 30-year-old sex worker and a mother of two children was abducted from G.B. Road on her way back from fetching milk by Constable Deepak Dubey of the Kamla Market P.S. She was brutally raped and sodomised by Dubey, his cousin Sanjeev Dikshit and...
Packaging Injustice: The Story of Flex Workers
The struggle of workers of Flex Industries Ltd at Noida against the illegal termination of 54 workers. The assault on the workers' rights was the move to institute a three-shift system while using the same number of workers. The workers of Flex are being made to bear...
Crime Unlimited: Torture, Extortion and Murder in the Custody of Delhi Police, Gandhi Nagar Police Station
The report relates to the death of a 23-year-old boy, Dinesh, a resident of Raghubarpura, near Gandhi Nagar in East Delhi. Dinesh was being questioned by the Gandhi Nagar police over the disappearance of a minor girl in his neighbourhood. The visits to the Police...
Latest Press Statements
CDRO condemns the arrest of Fact Finding team by Telangana police
CDRO strongly condemns the arrest of a 7 member Fact Finding team by the Telangana police at Dummagudem village of Bhadrachalam district on 25th December, 2016 at 6 pm and in turn handing them over to the Sukma Police (Chhattisgarh State). We also strongly object to...
Forced nationalism and the follow ups of the Supreme Court order on National Anthem
On 30th November 2016, the Supreme Court of India issued an interim order laying out seven directives to be followed marking respect for the National Anthem of India. These included the requirement for all to stand whenever the national anthem was played as well the...
Stop the Intimidation and Harassment of Kathputli colony residents
PUDR notes with concern the intimidation of the residents of Kathputli colony by the Delhi police since the night of 18 December. While Police presence was visible in and around Kathputli colony for the past few days, the police were deployed in large numbers (approx....
Condemn attack on tribal rights activists and continuing erosion of the Rule of Law in Chhattisgarh
PUDR expresses its disquiet that Bastar Police has recorded an FIR on the basis of a complaint filed by wife of deceased Shamnath Baghel, of Nama village under Kumakoleng Gram Panchayat in Tongpal who was killed, on November 4th allegedly by the Maoists. The FIR...
भोपाल फर्ज़ी मुठभेड़ के खिलाफ लखनऊ में धरना दे रहे रिहाई मंच के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ स्थानीय पुलिस द्वारा की गई बदसलूकी की निंदा!
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स हाल में हुए भोपाल फर्ज़ी मुठभेड़ के खिलाफ लखनऊ में धरना दे रहे रिहाई मंच के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ स्थानीय पुलिस द्वारा की गई बदसलूकी की कड़ी निंदा करता है | आज इस देश में गुंडा राज देखने को मिल रहा है | जहां एक तरफ बर्बर तरीके से 8...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
