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.
Remembering Stan Swamy (26 April 1937 – 5 July 2021)
The state persecuted Stan Swamy under the UAPA, a punishment that precipitated his death as an undertrial in judicial custody. Stan Swamy was framed, fettered, and finally forced towards a fatal illness under due process of law called the UAPA. The charges levelled reveal the state’s deep prejudice against an upright activist who spent decades in building and empowering Adivasi rights against historic neglect and exploitation. Stan Swamy’s persecution under the UAPA offers an understanding of how many others have been similarly punished by the state for their dissenting politics.
Prior to his incarceration, Stan Swamy’s failing health was well-known, but he was not granted even medical bail let alone regular bail. The NIA and the prison authorities refused to acknowledge the deterioration that he suffered in prison, and they failed to uphold his rights as a prisoner, a right to decent health care and facilities.
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Release Vulnerable Prisoners Now!
PUDR expresses apprehensions over the health status of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha who surrendered before the NIA in Mumbai and Delhi respectively on 14 April 2020. Both are implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case of January 2018 in which eleven human rights...
गौतम नवलखा और आनंद तेलतुम्बड़े की गिरफ़्तारियों का विरोध करो !: भीमा कोरेगाँव मामले में गिरफ़्तार 11 लोगों की रिहाई की माँग करो !
मानावधिकार कार्यकर्ता आनंद तेलतुम्बड़े और गौतम नवलखा को, देश भर में फैले कोरोना वायरस के संकट के बीच, एन.आई.ए. के समक्ष ‘सरेंडर’ करवाया जाना, आधुनिक भारत के राजनैतिक इतिहास में ओछेपन का एक नया स्तर है | पिछले दो वर्षों से देश भर में जनवादी अधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं, वकीलों...
Protest the Arrests of Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde: Demand release of the 11 arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case
The attempt to browbeat rights activists, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde to ‘surrender’ to the National Investigation Agency, amidst a nation-wide lockdown on account of Covid-19, marks a deep and scathing new low in the political history of contemporary India....
PUDR demands temporary decongestion of jails in view of COVID-19 public health crisis
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes the directions passed by the Supreme Court of India on 23.03.2020 in Suo Moto Writ Petition (C) 1/2020 titled In Re: Contagian of Covid 19 Virus in Prisons. Through the said order, all States and Union territories...
लाक्डाउन सम्बंधित सरकारी आदेशों से दिहाड़ी मज़दूर और उसके संवैधानिक अधिकार नदारद
करोना वाइरस से बचने के लिए देश भर में लगाए गए लाक्डाउन के बावजूद भी आनंद विहार बस अड्डे, दिल्ली बॉर्डर और यमुना ऐक्स्प्रेस्वे पर पैदल चलते मज़दूरों की तादाद कम नहीं हो रही है। इस संदर्भ में केंद्रीय सरकार, दिल्ली सरकार और सोलिसिटर जेनरल के बयानों और आदेशों को देखें:...
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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...
Dams, Development and the North East: A Report on the Peoples’ Resistance to Mega Dams in the Brahmaputra and Barak Valley
In light of the growing protests against the mega dams coming up in the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys, CDRO decided to send an all-India fact-finding team to these areas. An eight-member team visited the three states of the northeast, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and...
यह गाँव मेरा भी है: भगाना में दलित दावेदारी , भूमि अधिकार एयर सामाजित बहिष्कार
२३ मई २०१२ को हरियाणा के हिसार जिले में भगाना गांव के ७० दलित परिवारों ने, मवेशियों समेत अपना गांव छोड़कर, हिसार शहर में स्थित मिनी सचिवालय के बहार अपना डेरा जमा लिया। समाचारों के मुताबिक वे अपने गांव के जाटों द्वारा किये जा रहे उत्पीड़न और जमीन पर कब्जे का विरोध कर रहे...
Working Against Odds: Condition of Workers in the Cement Industry in Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh today is the scene where resistance to a ‘development’ model which seeks to enrich the capitalists and corporations is being waged, against land grabs, displacement from forests and privatisation of water resources. Under the garb of ‘Operation Greenhunt’...
This Village is Mine too: Dalit Assertion, Land Rights and Social Boycott in Bhagana
On 23rd May reportedly 70 Dalit families from village Bhagana, Hisar District, Haryana left their village together with their cattle and settled themselves outside the Mini-Secretariat in Hisar town in Haryana. They were protesting against mounting oppression and the...
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