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
And Quite Flows The Ganga: A documnetary on the political killings in rural Bihar
For many outsiders Bihar evokesimages of crime, corruption, and caste wars. Sensationelized reports of caste conflicts, the periodical exposure of scandals in high places and regular news of criminal gang operations from Bihar greet newspaper readers with unfailing...
Fewer Rights, More Bullets: The Central Industrial Security Force (Amendment) Bill
The Lok Sabha, on May 3, 1983, passed the Central Industrial Security Force (Amendment) Bill transforming the character of the security force formed fourteen years ago by a Parliamentary Act.This force, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has the...
Endless War: Distrubed Areas of North-East
A report on the Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers (Amendment) Act 1972, popularly known as the Disturbed Areas Act. This act has a unique character in that the armed forces reign supreme over the civil powers. The report feels that the democratic public...
Asian Games Judgement on PIL filed by PUDR
Public Interest Litigation, scope and need for- Violation of various labour laws in relation to workmen employed in the construction work connected with the Asian Games like Constitution of India, 1950 Arts. 24, Minimum wages Act, 1948, Equal Remuneration Act. The...
वन की लडाई : वन नीति की आलोचना
भारत सरकार ने एक नए भारतीय जंगल अधिनियम का मसौदा तैयार किया है जो जल्द ही संसद में कानून बनाने के लिए पेश किया जाएगा. साकार कहती है की नए कानून का उद्देश्य तेजी से काट रहे जंगल का विनाश रोकना है. लेकिन, प्रस्तावित कानून का हमारे देश की अर्थव्यवस्था, पर्यावरण , जनवादी...
Latest Press Statements
Hashimpura Judgment: An example of deliberate delay, violation of fair trial and denial of compensation.
On 22 May 1987, PAC personnel of UP reached Hashimpura, Meerut, took away about 50 Muslim men from a crowd outside a mosque, shot dead at least 42 of the men, and threw their bodies into a canal. On 21 March 2015, a Delhi Sessions Court accepted that the PAC personnel...
Condemn gang-rape in Nadia and continuing attacks on Christians
PUDR expresses outrage at the gang-rape of a 71 year old nun by a gang of “dacoits” inside a convent in Gangnapur village, Nadia district, West Bengal on 14th March 2015. The men reportedly raided and desecrated the convent before taking away 12 lakhs.Clearly, the...
Nine weeks and counting: strike of women sales-attendants of Kalyan Sarees
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, which arose to mark struggles of women workers for better working conditions and wages over a century ago, People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses its solidarity with the ongoing strike of women sales...
Release 145 undertrial Maruti workers on bail
PUDR welcomes the bail granted by the Supreme Court to Sunil s/o Satpal and Kanwaljeet Singh, two of the Maruti workers on February 23, 2015. Sunil and Kanwaljeet are among the 147 workers who were arrested in the aftermath of the violence on July 18, 2012, in the...
Condemn murder of CPI leader Govind Pansare
PUDR expresses its condemnation and grief at the death of respected social activist and CPI leader, 82 year old Govind Pansare on 20 February 2015 as a result of the murderous attack on him and his wife Uma Pansare by gun carrying assailants in Kolhapur four days...
Latest updates
Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
