Apr 18, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws
The Terror of Law is a CDRO (Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization) report which shows how and why the UAPA curbs the freedoms provided by Article 19 [Protection of Freedoms] for expression, assembly and association against one section of political opinion....
Apr 12, 2012 | Others, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
CONDEMN THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS BY TMC GOONS AND KOLKATA POLICE. DROP THE FALSE CHARGES AND IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ALL ANTI-EVICTION AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. PUNISH THE GUILTY POLICEMEN AND TMC THUGS. CDRO strongly and unequivocally condemns the...
Apr 10, 2012 | Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR strongly condemns the violent demolition of the Nonadanga slums on March 30th in Kolkata, and the subsequent police brutality on peaceful anti-eviction protests followed by the vindictive arrest of activists. Nonadanga is the area where the Kolkata Metropolitan...
Mar 30, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
JHARKHAND FACT-FINDING: 26th to 30th March 2012 A 17 member team of civil liberties and democratic rights organisations from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur, UP, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Jharkhand visited 3 districts Latehar, Garhwa and Palamau from March 25th to 29th...
Mar 21, 2012 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR expresses concern at the abduction of the two Italian nationals by the CPI (Maoist) in Kandamahal-Ganjam region of Orissa on March 14. However, a larger issue is raised by this act of abduction namely how even a wrong method can expose a legitimate concern of...
