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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Civil War and Uncivil Government: Human Rights Violation in Kashmir Under the National Conference Government
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Murders Most Foul: A Report on the Extra Judicial Killings by the Police in North Telengana
This is the report of a fact-finding conducted jointly by nine democratic rights organisations in the year 1996 into the extra-judicial killings by the police in North Telangana. It starts by providing a background about the region and the CPI (ML) movement, the...
The Company They Keep: A Report on Workers of Jhalani Tools Ltd., Faridabad
This report is regarding the workers' struggle in the Jhalani Tools Ltd. (Faridabad Unit), a company that makes spanners, wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers etc. Over 2000 permanent workers of the company were not paid any wages for over 19 months. The report exposes the...
Agrarian Conflict in Bihar and the Ranbir Sena
The organized killing of poor peasants and landless labourers by middle and upper-caste landed armies and retaliation by Marxist-Leninist organizations have been flashpoints in the agrarian scene in Bihar over the last fifteen years. Hence, this is not a new...
Murder at Midnight: Old Delhi Railway Station Police Station
The sixth custodial death of the year 1997 is an improbable story of suicide again. Booked for a seemingly petty offence at Old Delhi Railway Station Police Station, why would Ramesh, who according to the police is a bad character, commit suicide within a matter of...
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मोदी सरकार को किस बात का डर?
16 सितम्बर 2016 को उना दलित अत्याचार लड़त समिति के संयोजक एवं युवा नेता जिगनेश मेवानी को अहमदाबाद पुलिस ने पकड़ लिया | मेवानी को उस समय पकड़ा गया जब वह दिल्ली से लौटे | वे दिल्ली में जंतर मंतर पर दलित स्वाभिमान संघर्ष समिति द्वारा आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में आमसभा को संबोधित...
PUDR Salutes Shri Bojja Tharakam
People’s Union for Democratic Rights expresses its sincere condolences at the death of Shri. Bojja Tarakam, a tall figure fighting the cause of the Dalits, Minorities and a strong defender of civil liberties movements in the country for the last 50 years. He was a...
Between Innocence and Death:The case of Muslim under-trials accused of anti-state activities
PUDR strongly condemns the biased nature of investigations, the shortcomings of judicial processes, and the use of anti-democratic laws, which violate the fundamental freedoms of Muslim men accused of anti-state activity. Yet another replay of the same old story was...
CDRO Statement: Resistance is Existence
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization denounces the arrest of Khurram Parvez on the intervening night of 15-16 September at 12.30 AM from his house at Srinagar. He had returned from Delhi in the very morning of 15th September after being detained for nearly...
When Questions of Rights and Justice Become Seditious for a Democracy
The use of repressive laws, particularly the law of sedition, to silence emerging voices of rights and justice, has become a matter of routine, particularly in the present context of the Indian state facing a legitimacy crisis in Kashmir. The Bengaluru police on 15th...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
