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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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...
Discharge of Sadhvi Pragya and others in the Malegaon Blast case: Saffronization of Constitutional Agencies
The month of May began with the BJP demanding action against the water mafia in Mumbai under the Maharashatra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA). On the 10th of May Atikh Khan, Rafiq Khan and Javed, all three ragpickers, were charged with MCOCA for allegedly...
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पूँजी, श्रम और कानून: कैलकम फैक्ट्री में मज़दूर संघर्ष
यह रिपोर्ट कैलकम इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स लिमिटेड के प्रबंधकों और मज़दूरों के बीच १९९४ में हुए तनाव जिसने प्रदर्शन का रूप लिया है, उसपर आधारित है. इस कंपनी की सात इकाइयां हैं और इसमें करीब ७०० मज़दूर कार्य करते हैं. मुख्य मुद्दा न्यूनतम मज़दूरी का है जिसे लेकर संघर्ष शुरू हुआ। To...
A Rape in Custody (आगामी अतीत): Sexual History and Criminal Justice, Narela Police Station
This is a small report highlighting the adverse circumstances that a rape survivor faces in the aftermath of her rape in police custody. The report is about the rape of a Dalit woman in a Narela Police Station in Delhi. In an uncommon instance in this case, the...
A Rape in Custody: Hauz Khas Police Station
A woman brought to the police station goes missing, and when found accuses a policeman of rape. All circumstantial evidence points to the guilt of the policeman and he is taken into judicial custody. Despite this, the investigating police officers take much interest...
Netarhat: In the Line of Fire
In the Palamu and Gumla districts of Jharkhand (erstwhile Bihar), tens of thousands of people successfully prevented the army from conducting field firing and artillery practice on their land in 1994. Later on, the plan for making the entire area into a firing range...
First Notch in their Gun: Custodial Death, Seelampur P.S.
At around 4.00 in the afternoon of August 27, Masoom Ali, a 60-year-old ex-Army person, goes to a tea stall in his locality, Chauhan Bangar. He has heard that his son, Nusrat, is in a brawl with Mohd. Farman, son of Chand, the tea stall owner. Not only does he...
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