People’s Union for Democratic Rights

A civil liberties and democratic rights organisation based in Delhi, India

Holy Cow, Unholy Carcass and Dalits

Jul 28, 2016 | Caste, Communalism

PUDR condemns the incident of flogging, stripping and parading of seven men belonging to the chamar caste by vigilante gaurakshaks on 11 July 2016 in Mota Samadhiyala village, Una taluka, Gir Somnath District Gujarat, which has brought the Brahmanical character of...

Manual Scavenging must End

Mar 13, 2016 | Caste

Manual scavenging is a caste based occupation wherein a certain sub-caste of Dalits are condemned to manually clean, carry, dispose or handle in any manner human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Though it has been constitutionally banned for more than twenty...

Condemn casteist actions of Hyderabad University authorities

Jan 18, 2016 | Caste

PUDR strongly condemns the authorities of the Central University of Hyderabad for their caste based victimisation of Dalit students, which, on 17th January, 2016, resulted in Rohith Vemula , a Dalit Research Scholar in Science Technology and Society Studies in the...