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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PUDR MOURNS THE PASSING AWAY OF SWAMI AGNIVESH
PUDR mourns the passing away of Swami Agnivesh on September 11, 2020. Like many civil rights organizations which came into being in the post-Emergency phase in Delhi, PUDR shared a warm and comradely relation with Swami Agnivesh as he participated in a wide variety of...
RELEASE VARAVARA RAO IMMEDIATELY
PUDR is shocked to learn of the deteriorating condition of P. Varavara Rao in Taloja Jail. His family has held a press conference on July 12, 2020 drawing attention to his almost delirious and incoherent speech evident in his recent phone calls. His co-accused...
The Lessons of Bhima Koregaon: No Bail, Only Jail
With the surrenders of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha on April 14, 2020 in Mumbai and Delhi respectively, the NIA, the investigative agency, has ensured the arrest of all 11 prominent human rights activists in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case under the draconian...
Condemn the surreptitious transfer of Gautam Navlakha to Taloja Jail in Maharashtra
People's Union for Democratic Rights is aghast at the National Investigating Agency (NIA) surreptitiously whisking away Gautam Navlakha from the Tihar Jail to Mumbai on 25 May 2020, without informing his lawyers or his family. 67-year old Gautam Navlakha was arrested...
NE Delhi Riots: Demanding a Status Report – Make Investigations Transparent and FIRs public
About eighty days after the riots that convulsed NE Delhi, what is the status of the investigation into the ‘over 700’ FIRs reportedly registered, according to the Home Minister’s statement in Parliament on 11 March, two months ago? If recent media reportage of the...
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Fake Encounters in Odisha: How the State Picks, Arrests and Kills Its ‘Maoists’
On November 14, 2012, media reported that five Maoists had been killed and one red rebel captured during an encounter between the security forces and the Sabyasachi Panda faction in the Bhaliaguda forest area of Gobindapur panchayat of Gajapati district (bordering...
अन्याय की व्यवस्था: मध्य प्रदेश के मुल्ताई में पारधीयों का हिंसपूर्वक विस्थापन और उनकी बदहाली यौन उत्पीड़न पर सरकारी पर्दा
यह रिपोर्ट सितंबर 2007 मे दक्षिण मध्य प्रदेश के चोठिया गाँव मे पारधी समुदाय पर स्थानीय किसानो द्वारा किए गए तहस नहस और उनके विस्थापन का ब्योरा देती है। इस घटना के दौरान पुलिस और उच्च प्रशासन की राज्य मशीनरी भी मौजूद थी। इलाके के विधायक और कई राजनैतिक नेताओं ने भी इस...
Driving Force: Labour Struggles and Violation of Rights in Maruti Suzuki India Limited
This report is the outcome of the PUDR investigation undertaken after the incident of 18 July 2012, at the Manesar unit of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), in which an HR manager died and some other managers as well as workers were injured. PUDR investigated the...
JKCCS Resolution on Kashmir – Adopted on 20 April 2013 in a Public Meeting at Srinagar and Endorsed by CDRO and Others
This resolution was adopted by JKCCS in a public meeting on Asia Jeenlan's ninth death anniversary held in Srinagar on 20th April 2013. The theme of the public meeting was Institutional Violence: The Indian State in Jammu & Kashmir. The resolution was endorsed by...
Living in the Shadow of Terror: People’s Lives and Security Operations in Jharkhand
It has been over a decade since Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar into a separate state. In this period the state has witnessed a new face of people’s movements against displacement and armed repression by the state. News of the multitude of growing people’s movements...
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