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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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...
हौंडा मज़दूरों के यूनियन बनाने के मूल अधिकार का समर्थन!
पीयूडीआर ने हमेशा माना है की यूनियन बनाने का अधिकार और सामूहिकसमझौता संविधान के अनुच्छेद 19(1)(c) के तेहत एक मूल अधिकार है | यह अधिकार मज़दूरों को अपनी परेशानियां रखने और मैनेजमेंट के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने के लिए ज़रूरी है | जब भी मज़दूर एकजुट होने की कोशिश करते हैं,...
मोदी सरकार को किस बात का डर?
16 सितम्बर 2016 को उना दलित अत्याचार लड़त समिति के संयोजक एवं युवा नेता जिगनेश मेवानी को अहमदाबाद पुलिस ने पकड़ लिया | मेवानी को उस समय पकड़ा गया जब वह दिल्ली से लौटे | वे दिल्ली में जंतर मंतर पर दलित स्वाभिमान संघर्ष समिति द्वारा आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में आमसभा को संबोधित...
PUDR Salutes Shri Bojja Tharakam
People’s Union for Democratic Rights expresses its sincere condolences at the death of Shri. Bojja Tarakam, a tall figure fighting the cause of the Dalits, Minorities and a strong defender of civil liberties movements in the country for the last 50 years. He was a...
Latest Publications
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...
Packaging Injustice: The Story of Flex Workers
The struggle of workers of Flex Industries Ltd at Noida against the illegal termination of 54 workers. The assault on the workers' rights was the move to institute a three-shift system while using the same number of workers. The workers of Flex are being made to bear...
Crime Unlimited: Torture, Extortion and Murder in the Custody of Delhi Police, Gandhi Nagar Police Station
The report relates to the death of a 23-year-old boy, Dinesh, a resident of Raghubarpura, near Gandhi Nagar in East Delhi. Dinesh was being questioned by the Gandhi Nagar police over the disappearance of a minor girl in his neighbourhood. The visits to the Police...
A Sensational Case of Extortion: Death in Tihar Jail
The report is based on PUDR’s investigation into the death of twenty-year-old Raziuddin in Tihar Jail. Raziuddin, a B.Sc. from Jamia Milia Islamia and also a Diploma in Computer Science and Architecture was falsely implicated by the Crime Branch of Delhi under the...
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