Aug 19, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws
PUDR strongly condemns banning of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), Andhra Pradesh Unit by Andhra Pradesh Government in the name of ‘Maoism’ under the draconian Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, 1992. This is the latest instances amongst the series of repressive...
Aug 13, 2012 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Gender Issues
PUDR condemns growing incidents of sexual assault by CRPF personnel on young women in Paikmal block of Bargarh district in Odisha. On July 24, a few CRPF personnel placed in the same block assaulted a 20-year-old woman of the Vindhyabasini colony of Paikmal. The...
Jul 24, 2012 | Caste, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
In the past few months, parts of north-western India have witnessed incidents of outright Dalit assertion of their rights related to access to resources and to a life of dignity. This has, in all cases, met with retaliation by the dominant upper or intermediary...
Jul 9, 2012 | Others, Undemocratic Laws
Shut the voices that do not speak for them: that is what all non-democratic regimes do. And that happens in democracies too. Or at least it happens in India which makes high claims of its democracy. Sometimes it is done through the state machinery like police and the...