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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A “Criminal” Investigation: Death in Custody of Gurgaon P.S.
Ashok, 22 years old, belonging to the notorious Bawaria Tribe was picked up from his home by the Jahangirpuri police station on 9 February along with six other relatives, including his mother and sister Vimla. They were subjected to severe torture. Ashok and others...
ये फसल उमीदों की हमदम: मध्य भार में जनसंहार और किसान संघर्ष
स्वर्ण लिबरेशन फ्रंट के सदयों द्वारा २१ सितम्बर १९९१ को सात भूमिहीन मज़दूरों को सावनबीघा (जहानाबाद ) पकड़कर लाया गया और मार डाला गया। दो दिन बाद एक अन्य घटना में किसान संघ के सदस्यों ने सात गरीब दलितों को करकतबीघा (पटना ) में गोलियों से भून डाला। १ अक्टूबर को लगभग...
Cry the Beloved Country: Ayodhya, 6 December 1992
The Babri Masjid was demolished by kar sewaks on Sunday, 6 December. With it was shaken an image and an imagination that bound all of us together all these years. Memories of other times, of partition, revisited us and got mixed somewhat hazily with our future. The...
1984 Carnage in Delhi: A Report on the Aftermath
On 17 November, PUDR and PUCL released their report "Who are the Guilty". The report covered the role of the state, congress (I) leaders and police personnel during the 1984 carnage in New Delhi. Among other things, the report carried in an annexure the names of the...
Bitter Harvest: The Roots of Massacres in Central Bihar
From the time of the killing of 14 Dalits at Tiskhora on 19 January 1991, more than 120 persons have been killed in a year in about 24 such incidents of agrarian violence against the poorest and most oppressed sections of rural Bihar. Popularly perceived to be...
Latest Press Statements
Kashmir: ‘More things change, more they remain the same’ – CDRO
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation is alarmed at how a demand for justice results again in killing of civilians by a trigger happy Government force in Kashmir. The alleged molestation of a 16 year old girl on April 12thby a personnel of 21 RR posted in...
Condemn police brutality on students and teachers in University of Hyderabad
PUDR strongly condemns the brutal police action unleashed on students and teachers at the University of Hyderabad campus on 22nd March 2016. This took place when students were protesting against the return of the Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Poddile to the campus after he...
The lynch mob of Latehar
In the early hours of 18th March 2016, Mohammad Majloom Ansari (35) and Inayahtullah Khan (12) were found hanging from a tree in the Balumath forest area in Latehar, Jharkhand. Residents of Balugoan and Nawada villages, Ansari and young Khan were on their way to the...
Manual Scavenging must End
Manual scavenging is a caste based occupation wherein a certain sub-caste of Dalits are condemned to manually clean, carry, dispose or handle in any manner human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Though it has been constitutionally banned for more than twenty...
पीयूडीआर मांग करता है कि मुज़फ्फरनगर दंगों के गवाहों को न्यायालयों द्वारा तुरंत सुरक्षा दी जाए, और न्यायपूर्ण फैसले दिए जाएँ !
2013 में मुज़फ्फरनगर में हुऐ दंगों से सम्बंधित हत्याओं, बलात्कार, लूट और आगज़नी के मामलों में आरोपियों के बरी होने की खबरें लगातार सामने आ रही हैं | पीयूडीआर चिंता व्यक्त करता है कि 2013 में मुज़फ्फरनगर के दंगों के बाद डर और खुली छूट का जो माहौल बना था, वह आज भी बरकरार...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
