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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Six Parliaments And Democratic Rights
In the last 32 years six parliaments have come and gone, five prime ministers have changed, promises were made and assurances given. But the assault on people’s democratic rights has continued. The ordinary masses of India, toiling day in and day out with no security...
Report Of The PUCL&DR (Delhi) Fact Finding Team On Faridabad Incidents Of 17th October, 1979
On Oct 1979 Haryana Police ran berserk and killed innocent people in Faridabad. and then engaged in concealing and destroying all evidence of their misdeeds. This report is the result of fact finding conducted by PUCL&DR which met victims of firing, talked to...
Repression in Singhbhum
The People's Union for Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights (PUCL) in Delhi was concerned to learn of frequent instances of police firing on adivasis in Chaibasa and oppression of landless labourers in Baharagora areas of Singhbhum in Bihar during the latter half of...
DISSENTING VOICES
Voices of poets from some of the languages in India. This collection is not representative but only a small sample of what is available. This anthology, however feeble, shows that the poetic conscience of India is not silent at the time of crisis. To download the...
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दो दशक पुराने कुनन पश्पोरा मामले में पुनः जांच स्थगित – सैन्य बलों को प्राप्त दण्डमुक्ति का एक और उदाहरण
पी.यू.डी.आर. एक बार फिर इस देश में सैन्य बलों को मिली कानूनी दण्डमुक्ति के मुद्दे को चिन्हित करना चाहता है | 16 जनवरी 2015 को कुनन पश्पोरा बलात्कार मामले में जम्मू कश्मीर उच्च न्यायलय ने एक ऐसा निर्देश जारी किया जो इस बात की तरफ इशारा करता है की इस देश में सैन्य बलों...
Why was Greenpeace activist prevented from travelling to London?
PUDR condemns the Union Government for preventing Ms. Priya Pillai of Greenpeace (India) from travelling to London. Greenpeace came under scrutiny because of its support to Mahan Sangharsh Samiti, a grassroots organisation challenging coal mining license for Mahan...
Condemning Undemocratic Extension of AFSPA
PUDR strongly condemns the extension of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in Assam, on January 2, 2015 under Section 3 of the Act by the Government of India. Coming in the wake of the recent massacre of adivasis by the National Democratic Front of...
Can Compensation replace Justice?
On 18th December 2014, the Supreme Court directed the Central Government to pay Rs. 10 lakh as compensation to the family of Thangjam Chanu Manorama Devi. PUDR recognizes that this is a small step but cannot be a substitute for actual justice. Reacting to the SC...
One sparrow does not herald a spring.
A rare instance of army convicting its own personnel for war crimes does not mean end of legal immunity enjoyed by the armed forces in what officialdom calls the “disturbed area”. That the government denies presence of armed conflict is of course in marked contrast to...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
