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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Fact- finding visit to Niyamgir – Lanjigada area by CDRO and GASS
A 16-member fact-finding team of All India Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) and Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan, Odisha (GASS) had been to Niyamgiri area and Vedanta Plant site, Lanjigada and spent three days from 26th to 28th April, 2019...
Condemn Killing of Legislator and Four Others in Dantewada: Demand violence free elections
People’s Union of Democratic Rights (PUDR) strongly condemns the Maoist attack in Dantewada in which BJP legislator Bhima Mandavi, three security personnel travelling with him and the driver of the vehicle have been killed. Carried out yesterday, two days before polls...
Lawful Government, Unlawful Acts: Revoke the Ban on JKLF!
The attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama in mid-February and the escalating tensions between India & Pakistan following Balakot air strikes, have provided ample occasion for the Indian state to use draconian laws to further suppress the democratic aspirations and...
‘कंटिन्युइंग इंप्यूनिटी: डेथ्स इन पुलिस कस्टडी, दिल्ली 2016-2018’– दिल्ली में हुई 2016 से 2018 के बीच पुलिस हिरासत में मौतों पर एक जांच रिपोर्ट के प्रकाशन पर
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स (पी.यू.डी.आर) 1980 के दशक से ही दिल्ली की पुलिस हिरासत में होने वाली मौतों पर तथ्यान्वेषण को रिपोर्ट के जरिये से सामने लाता रहा है | इन पड़तालों में पी.यू.डी.आर ने अक्सर यह पाया कि पुलिस हिरासत में दी जाने वाली यातानाएँ गैर-इरादतन...
Publication and release of PUDR’s report ‘Continuing Impunity: Deaths in Police Custody, Delhi 2016-2018’
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) has been investigating incidents of deaths in police custody and publishing reports on these from the 1980s. These investigations revealed that these deaths were most commonly the unintentional consequences of custodial...
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Shocking Callousness and Neglect: A Report on Industrial Accident and its Aftermath
Thirteen workers were burnt to death in a factory in south Delhi’s Tuglaqabad area on 25 January 2011. However, six months after the event, as this report goes to press, little has been done to compensate workers, let alone arrest those responsible for these deaths....
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छत्तीसगढ़ में अबूझमाड़ के घने जंगलों के भीतर ११ फरवरी २०११ को बहुत गहरे राजनीतिक और ऐतिहासिक घटना घटी. इस दिन सीपीआई (माओवादी) ने मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं और मीडिया के चुनिंदा सदस्यों के सामने छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस के पांच जवानों को रिहा किया. सीपीआई (माओवादी) २५ जनवरी २०११ को...
Nandini Sundar & ORS. Vs. State of Chhattisgarh
Judgment delivered by the Supreme Court, in which it has struck down as ‘unconstitutional’ the practice of arming local tribal youth as special police officers (SPOs) in order to fight the Maoists. The Judgment asked the state government to immediately stop using...
Chintalnar Massacre Report
Report of a 13-member fact-finding team of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations who visited the Chintalnar Area of Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh to probe into the incidents of atrocities perpetrated by the Salwa Judum and the state forces on the...
खेल खतम पैसा हज़म
राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल के निर्माण कार्य में मजदुरों के शोषण की कहानी पर एक रिपोर्ट. To download the report, click below: खेल खतम पैसा...
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