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
Of Police and Prison: A Death via Two Custodies
This report published in July 1995 investigates the torture and custodial death of 23-year-old Ajay at the hands of the police. Ajay, a motor mechanic by trade was picked up by the police on 5th June for questioning related to a break-in and stabbing at Madras...
Oppose TADA: Protest Against All Black Laws
This leaflet was published during the All India Convention Against TADA on 13 May 1995, hosted by PUDR and organised jointly organised by AIFOFDR, APCLC, ACRA (Assansole), AFDR (Punjab), APDR (WB), CCLDR (Goa), CPDR (Bombay), LHS (Bombay), MASS (Assam), OPDR (AP and...
पूँजी, श्रम और कानून: कैलकम फैक्ट्री में मज़दूर संघर्ष
यह रिपोर्ट कैलकम इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स लिमिटेड के प्रबंधकों और मज़दूरों के बीच १९९४ में हुए तनाव जिसने प्रदर्शन का रूप लिया है, उसपर आधारित है. इस कंपनी की सात इकाइयां हैं और इसमें करीब ७०० मज़दूर कार्य करते हैं. मुख्य मुद्दा न्यूनतम मज़दूरी का है जिसे लेकर संघर्ष शुरू हुआ। To...
A Rape in Custody (आगामी अतीत): Sexual History and Criminal Justice, Narela Police Station
This is a small report highlighting the adverse circumstances that a rape survivor faces in the aftermath of her rape in police custody. The report is about the rape of a Dalit woman in a Narela Police Station in Delhi. In an uncommon instance in this case, the...
A Rape in Custody: Hauz Khas Police Station
A woman brought to the police station goes missing, and when found accuses a policeman of rape. All circumstantial evidence points to the guilt of the policeman and he is taken into judicial custody. Despite this, the investigating police officers take much interest...
Latest Press Statements
The Pelletised Face of Kashmir
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is horrified that the Rajya Sabha which debated the situation in Jammu and Kashmir on August 10, could not muster resolve to call for an immediate halt to use of pellet guns, which is not used anywhere in either India or the world...
पवित्र गाय, अपवित्र शव और दलित
पीयूडीआर गुजरात में गिर सोमनाथ जिले के उना तालुका अंतर्गत मोटा समाधियाला गाँव में गौ-रक्षकों द्वारा चमार जाति के 7 लोगों के साथ मार-पीट, कपड़े उतारने और प्रदर्शन करने की घटना की कड़ी निंदा करता है। इसने हिन्दुत्व के गाय की राजनीति की ब्राह्मणवादी चरित्र तथा राज्य के...
Holy Cow, Unholy Carcass and Dalits
PUDR condemns the incident of flogging, stripping and parading of seven men belonging to the chamar caste by vigilante gaurakshaks on 11 July 2016 in Mota Samadhiyala village, Una taluka, Gir Somnath District Gujarat, which has brought the Brahmanical character of...
The state’s war on democracy in Kashmir
After bullets, pellets, deaths; after curfew, clampdowns on mobile internet and on cable television, the Indian state has further exacerbated the war on people in Kashmir. On the night of 15 July 2016, the police raided, seized and shut down the printing presses of...
Another bloody harvest: We demand accountability from the state – stop the horrific bloodletting in Kashmir
PUDR unequivocally condemns the violence and repression unleashed by the security establishment on Kashmiri civilian population since the killing of Burhan Wani on Friday evening. CID ADG SM Sahai had declared in a Press briefing on Saturday that “Our non-lethal...
Latest updates
Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
