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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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Latest Press Statements

PUDR Releases CDRO Report: The Terror of Law: UAPA and the Myth of National Security

Apr 18, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws

The Terror of Law is a CDRO (Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization) report which shows how and why the UAPA curbs the freedoms provided by Article 19 [Protection of Freedoms] for expression, assembly and association against one section of political opinion....

The right to dissent will not be surrendered.

Apr 12, 2012 | Others, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws

CONDEMN THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS BY TMC GOONS AND KOLKATA POLICE. DROP THE FALSE CHARGES AND IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ALL ANTI-EVICTION AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. PUNISH THE GUILTY POLICEMEN AND TMC THUGS. CDRO strongly and unequivocally condemns the...

PUDR Condemns Attack on Nonadanga Slum Dwellers by West Bengal Police in Kolkata

Apr 10, 2012 | Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws

PUDR strongly condemns the violent demolition of the Nonadanga slums on March 30th in Kolkata, and the subsequent police brutality on peaceful anti-eviction protests followed by the vindictive arrest of activists. Nonadanga is the area where the Kolkata Metropolitan...

CDRO press statement/ interim report on State suppression of mass struggle against anti people development policies

Mar 30, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights

JHARKHAND FACT-FINDING: 26th to 30th March 2012 A 17 member team of civil liberties and democratic rights organisations from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur, UP, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Jharkhand visited 3 districts Latehar, Garhwa and Palamau from March 25th to 29th...

Unkept Promises and Politics of Abduction

Mar 21, 2012 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights

PUDR expresses concern at the abduction of the two Italian nationals by the CPI (Maoist) in Kandamahal-Ganjam region of Orissa on March 14. However, a larger issue is raised by this act of abduction namely how even a wrong method can expose a legitimate concern of...