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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भोपाल फर्ज़ी मुठभेड़ के खिलाफ लखनऊ में धरना दे रहे रिहाई मंच के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ स्थानीय पुलिस द्वारा की गई बदसलूकी की निंदा!
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स हाल में हुए भोपाल फर्ज़ी मुठभेड़ के खिलाफ लखनऊ में धरना दे रहे रिहाई मंच के कार्यकर्ताओं के साथ स्थानीय पुलिस द्वारा की गई बदसलूकी की कड़ी निंदा करता है | आज इस देश में गुंडा राज देखने को मिल रहा है | जहां एक तरफ बर्बर तरीके से 8...
Banned and Damned to Death: Press Statement on Custodial Killings of SIMI Undertrials
On the morning of 31st October eight male Muslim undertrials- Amjad Khan, Mehboob alias Guddu, Zakir Hussain, Mohammad Salik, Akeel Khilji, Mohammad Khalid, Mujeeb Shaikh, Majid- all accused in SIMI related cases, were brutally shot dead by the Madhya Pradesh (MP)...
Why we stand in solidarity with the Kashmiri People’s demand for the Right to Self-determination?
On 27th October 2016 several organisations in Delhi came together in protest at Jantar Mantar demanding restoration of civil liberties and democratic rights in Kashmir. People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) affirms its solidarity with the people of Kashmir who...
From Burning Villages to Burning Effigies
PUDR strongly condemns the burning of the effigies of activists and a journalist by the Chhatissgarh Auxiliary police force across Bastar in a widely publicised ‘offical protest on 24th October. This show of strength by state forces against civilians was the latest...
Support Honda Workers’ Fundamental Right to Organise!
PUDR has long held that the right to form a Trade Union and engage in collective bargaining is a fundamental right under Article 19(1)c of the Indian Constitution- Freedom to form a union or association. This right is necessary if workers are to have any chance to...
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Bloody Sunday: Brutal Attack on Jamia Students
On Sunday, 9 April 2000, perhaps one of the worst-ever incidents of police terror against students since the Emergency took place at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. A four-member team of PUDR carried out a fact-finding investigation into the incident and its...
एक और टाडा नहीं: प्रस्तावित प्रिवेनशन आफ टैरोरिस्म बिल की आलोचना
पी. यू. डी. आर. ने अन्य जनवादी संगठनों के साथ मिलकर समय समय पर टाडा तहत बार बार गिरफ्तार किए गए लोगों और उनकी असीम यंत्रणाओं को संकलित किया है। इन रेपोर्टों में सिर्फ कानून की छिटपुट उलंघनों का ही विस्तार नही है बल्कि बल्कि टाडा कानून के ढाचे में निहित प्रावधानों पर...
Not Another Terrorist Law Please: A Critique of the Proposed Criminal Law Amendment Bill
UDR and other civil rights organisations 'have time and again attempted to chronicle the immense human suffering that the earlier TADA inflicted on hundreds of ordinary men and women detained under it. This suffering was not an outcome of 'stray cases of abuse' but...
Workers’ Death and Working Lives: Accident at Virgo Washing Co., Okhla Industrial Estate
In one of the most serious industrial accidents in Delhi in recent years, six workers died from an explosion and fire in a fabric-washing factory within the Okhla Industrial Estate on 16 September. Twelve workers were inside the factory at the time. The accident took...
Raped and Condemned: Custodial Rape of a Sex Worker
On 30 September 1999, a 30-year-old sex worker and a mother of two children was abducted from G.B. Road on her way back from fetching milk by Constable Deepak Dubey of the Kamla Market P.S. She was brutally raped and sodomised by Dubey, his cousin Sanjeev Dikshit and...
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