Dec 19, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
Following an outcry against the alleged killing of five tribals/Maoists in an ‘encounter’, near Bhaliaguda village of Gajapati district of Odisha, a six-member team of individuals representing CDRO and Women against Sexual Violence and State Violence (WSS) visited...
Dec 18, 2012 | Adivasis, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
For a long time now, the Jharkhand government has been avoiding confrontation with people’s issues. Any struggle or protest that takes place today in Jharkhand is automatically viewed as one which is anti-state. Whether the issue is one related to displacement or of...
Nov 29, 2012 | Death Penalty, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The execution of Ajmal Amer Kasab has been hailed as one that gave a sense of justice and closure to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai attack. But far from that, Kasab’s hanging should set alarm bells ringing for every citizen of this country because it shows...
Nov 22, 2012 | Encounters
The recent incident of paramilitary forces murdering five villagers and saying that they were Maoists in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha on the 13th November 2012, is yet another instance of a serious malaise of the body politic which PUDR has repeatedly...
Nov 20, 2012 | Communalism, Undemocratic Laws
People’s Union for Democratic Rights strongly condemns the arrest of two facebook users, Shaheen Dhada who questioned the total shut down of Mumbai for Bal Thakeray’s funeral on Sunday, 18th November 2012, and Rini Shrinivasan, who indicated that she agrees with the...