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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Another bloody harvest: We demand accountability from the state – stop the horrific bloodletting in Kashmir
PUDR unequivocally condemns the violence and repression unleashed by the security establishment on Kashmiri civilian population since the killing of Burhan Wani on Friday evening. CID ADG SM Sahai had declared in a Press briefing on Saturday that “Our non-lethal...
पुलिस और गौरक्षक दलों की मिलीभगत से ‘गौरक्षा’ के नाम पर प्रतिदिन हो रहा है मूल अधिकारों का हनन!
पीयूडीआर देश भर में पुलिस और गौरक्षक दलों एवं हिन्दुत्ववादी संगठनों की मिलीभगत से 'गौरक्षा' के नाम पर दिनों-दिन हो रहे मूल अधिकारों के हनन की कड़ी निंदा करता है | देश के लगभग हर हिस्से में खासकर उत्तर प्रदेश, हरियाणा, पंजाब, महाराष्ट्र, मध्य प्रदेश और राजस्थान में...
Accused Hence Guilty: Open Letter to Minister for Women and Child Development by PUDR
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) notes with concern provisions of the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2016. The Bill seeks to prevent trafficking of persons and to provide protection and rehabilitation to the victims...
PUDR demands action against the Gurgaon Gau Raksha Dal for assault and violation of fundamental rights of two cattle transporters
PUDR expresses outrage at the barbaric incident of 10th June where, in a horrific example of discrimination and violation of dignity, two men - Rizwan and Mukhtiar - accused of transporting beef from Mewat to Delhi, were forced to eat cow dung by members of the...
Stop surveillance and harassment of Kashmiri students!
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights expresses its outrage at the harassment and arrest of Kashmiri students in Mewar University, Rajasthan, and other educational institutions, amidst an intensifying surveillance of Kashmiris across the country. On 14th March, 2016, a...
Latest Publications
Gopalpur: Steel Plant, Displacement and People’s Struggle
In August 1995, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) and the Government of Orissa for the setting up of a steel plant and township, near the well-known Gopalpur beach and port, in Chhatarpur and Berhampur blocks of...
Resources of Hope: Workers’ Struggle in Fashion Team
Not many people know that a month-long workers' struggle in Fashion Team, a garment unit, has succeeded in making the management agree to take back 191 workers who were forcibly thrown out of the factory premises when they reported for duty on 2 April 1997. To...
संभावना की किरण: ओखला में फ़ैशन टीम के कर्मचारिओ का संघर्ष
मजदूरों की छटनी; गैरकानूनी तरीके से बर्खास्तगी; पुलिस, प्रशासन और मैनेजमेंट की मिलीभत और मजदूर के लिए बने क़ानूनों को पूरी तरह से लागू करने मे असक्छम विभाग। इन सबों की बीच फ़ैशन टीम के मजदूरों द्वारा, पुर्वांचल मजदूर ट्रेड यूनियन और दिल्ली जनरल मजदूर फ्रंट के सहयोग से...
Voices of Protest: Workers’ Struggle at Wazirpur
The Supreme Court gave an amended order in 1996 for the relocation and closure of polluting factories in Delhi. For workers, the order had a provision of compensation in case of loss of jobs due to relocation or closure. In this state of affairs where more than half...
D.K. Basu Vs State of West Bengal
The judgment on PIL on the issue of death in police custody and "custody jurisprudence" and modalities for awarding compensation to the victim and/or family members of the victim for atrocities and death caused in police custody and also the question of...
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