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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Oppose Death Penalty
People’s Union for Democratic Rights strongly opposes the impending death penalty for gang rape and murder that the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case, Akshay, Mukesh, Pawan and Vinay are awaiting. It is widely known and well established that death penalty is not a...
Oppose the politics of banning organizations and targeting of rights organizations
People’s Union for Democratic Rights condemns the attempts being made by the Uttar Pradesh government towards securing a national level ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and also trying to contemptuously target rights-based organization Rihai Manch through...
5 January Attack on JNU: An Orchestrated Conspiracy
PUDR strongly condemns the violence unleashed by right-wing hoodlums inside Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on the evening of 5 January 2019. A group of around 100 masked goons carrying rods, hammers, canes/lathis among other weapons barged into the closed campus...
PUDR CONDEMNDS THE PASSAGE OF THE TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) BILL 2019
PUDR condemns the passage of The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 by the Rajya Sabha on 26 November 2019. The Lok Sabha had earlier passed the Bill in the Monsoon session on 5 August 2019 amid the chaos relating to the unannounced abrogation of...
90 Days of Lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir
5th November 2019 marks the 3-month lockdown of Jammu and Kashmir after the BJP government abrogated the special status of the state under Article 370 and 35A. The BJP government at the centre is projecting the transition into the new set up as absolute “normalcy”....
Latest Publications
The Jihad is not Against Love Only!
‘Love Jihad’ is a name given to a kind of movement whereby women from non-Muslim communities are allegedly ‘lured’ into marrying Muslim men as a way of furthering conversion to Islam. The issue of ‘Love Jihaad’ dates back to 2009 when in Kerala a case was reported....
Decision to hang Surender Koli: Yet Another Error of Judgement?
The Nithari case made headlines in 2006 when fifteen skeletons were unearthed from a house in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, following the investigation into the disappearance case in which a number of children and a woman went missing. House owner Moninder Singh Pandher and...
Yes to Justice, No to Death: Position Paper on Death Penalty
PUDR’s opposition to the penalty of death is three decades old. Like everything else our opposition to capital punishment is evolving and is a ‘work in progress’. Starting with serious objections to the arbitrariness inbuilt in awarding the Death Penalty, the fact...
Sexual Assault on Four Girls in Haryana in the Context of Dalit Rights to Common Lands
A joint team comprising the Association for Democratic Rights (AFDR) from Punjab, the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) from Delhi visited Bhagana village of Hisar district on May 13, 2014. The...
Crimes of Habit: A Report on Custodial Torture in Vijay Vihar Police Station
On 10 July 2013, a leading news channel Aaj Tak telecast a video clip that showed several young boys describing their experience of custodial torture by policemen at the Vijay Vihar Police Station in outer Delhi. The incident occurred between 26 and 28 March 2013. The...
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