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
Resources of Hope: Workers’ Struggle in Fashion Team
Not many people know that a month-long workers' struggle in Fashion Team, a garment unit, has succeeded in making the management agree to take back 191 workers who were forcibly thrown out of the factory premises when they reported for duty on 2 April 1997. To...
संभावना की किरण: ओखला में फ़ैशन टीम के कर्मचारिओ का संघर्ष
मजदूरों की छटनी; गैरकानूनी तरीके से बर्खास्तगी; पुलिस, प्रशासन और मैनेजमेंट की मिलीभत और मजदूर के लिए बने क़ानूनों को पूरी तरह से लागू करने मे असक्छम विभाग। इन सबों की बीच फ़ैशन टीम के मजदूरों द्वारा, पुर्वांचल मजदूर ट्रेड यूनियन और दिल्ली जनरल मजदूर फ्रंट के सहयोग से...
Voices of Protest: Workers’ Struggle at Wazirpur
The Supreme Court gave an amended order in 1996 for the relocation and closure of polluting factories in Delhi. For workers, the order had a provision of compensation in case of loss of jobs due to relocation or closure. In this state of affairs where more than half...
D.K. Basu Vs State of West Bengal
The judgment on PIL on the issue of death in police custody and "custody jurisprudence" and modalities for awarding compensation to the victim and/or family members of the victim for atrocities and death caused in police custody and also the question of...
The Other Side of the Success Story: Work Conditions, Accidents and Workers’ Rights at Hindalco
On 10 April 1996, a sizable portion of the wall of a fly ash disposal pond belonging to Hindalco Industries Ltd. collapsed at Renukoot town. Approximately 22,500 tonnes of the ash and water sludge swept the valley area up to the Rihand river covering a distance of...
Latest Press Statements
Stop surveillance and harassment of Kashmiri students!
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights expresses its outrage at the harassment and arrest of Kashmiri students in Mewar University, Rajasthan, and other educational institutions, amidst an intensifying surveillance of Kashmiris across the country. On 14th March, 2016, a...
Discharge of Sadhvi Pragya and others in the Malegaon Blast case: Saffronization of Constitutional Agencies
The month of May began with the BJP demanding action against the water mafia in Mumbai under the Maharashatra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA). On the 10th of May Atikh Khan, Rafiq Khan and Javed, all three ragpickers, were charged with MCOCA for allegedly...
PUDR condemns the deplaning of Gladson Dungdung
“I started travelling to the Red Corridor in order to collect evidence that this is not a war against terrorism, the so-called Naxalite insurgency by the CPI-Maoists but a war against the Adivasis. The hidden goal is to snatch their resources i.e. their lands, their...
पीयूडीआर छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के बस्तर ज़िले में पत्रकारों के खिलाफ चलाए जा रहे सुनियोजित अभियान की कड़ी निंदा करता है
पीयूडीआर छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के बस्तर ज़िले में पत्रकारों के खिलाफ चलाए जा रहे सरकार के सुनियोजित अभियान की कड़ी निंदा करता है | इस संदर्भ में पीयूडीआर छत्तीसगढ़ के पत्रकारों की तरफ से बनाई गई पत्रकार सुरक्षा क़ानून संयुक्त संघर्ष समिति व पत्रकारिता की सुरक्षा और स्वतंत्रता की...
PUDR condemns police apathy in the case of brutal caste and gender based violence against Dalit law student in Kerala
PUDR strongly condemns the gruesome rape and murder of the Dalit law student in Kerala’s Perumbavoor district on 28th April 2016, and the appalling indifference demonstrated by the police in securing justice for her. The mutilation of her body is symptomatic of the...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
