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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एक और टाडा नहीं: प्रस्तावित प्रिवेनशन आफ टैरोरिस्म बिल की आलोचना
पी. यू. डी. आर. ने अन्य जनवादी संगठनों के साथ मिलकर समय समय पर टाडा तहत बार बार गिरफ्तार किए गए लोगों और उनकी असीम यंत्रणाओं को संकलित किया है। इन रेपोर्टों में सिर्फ कानून की छिटपुट उलंघनों का ही विस्तार नही है बल्कि बल्कि टाडा कानून के ढाचे में निहित प्रावधानों पर...
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...
Latest Press Statements
CDRO Statement: ‘Rude acts of mere instinct’
Civil liberties and Democratic Rights organizations have for long argued that using Indian Army to prosecute war against our own people is to fight an ignoble war, because such wars are Dirty Wars under the very definition of Counter Insurgency warfare where our own...
PUDR Condemns Award to Major Gogoi!
PUDR strongly condemns the commendation conferred on Major Leetul Gogoi by none less than the Army Chief for taking Farooq Dar hostage, tying Dar to the front of his jeep allegedly to ward off attacking stone-pelters, and then driving around for several hours to warn...
Deterrence is Through Prosecution, Not Through Death Sentence
On 5th May, 2017 the Supreme Court upheld the High Court judgement giving death penalty to the four accused in the ‘Nirbhaya’ case ie the brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh on December 16, 2012. The trial and conviction of the guilty in a time bound manner...
CDRO Statement on midnight raids and fabricated surrenders of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti activists in Raygada district, Odisha
CDRO expresses deep concern about the intensifying repression on the Dongria Kondhos of Niyamgiri mountains whose sustained resistance against bauxite mining is a fight for their survival and livelihood. CDRO condemns the midnight raid of the CRPF on the night of May...
CDRO Statement: Wanted! A Responsible Government; Reflecting on the Sukma Attack
The Maoist attack of 24th April in Burkapal village in Sukma District which left 25 CRPF jawans and at least one Maoist dead is the latest instance in the cycle of violence and counter-violence between the security forces and the Maoists in Chhattisgarh, which...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
