Dec 11, 2013 | Gender Issues, Undemocratic Laws
The Peoples’ Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses deep disappointment at the Supreme Court ruling making homosexual relations between consenting adults an offence. In an affirmation of the rights of Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) persons, the Delhi...
Jan 5, 2013 | Armed Conflict, Custodial Rape, Gender Issues, Others, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
While PUDR understands that Indian society is deeply patriarchal, it also believes that the Indian state is primarily responsible for the sorry state of women’s rights in this country and that its actions enforce and sustain the inequality of women in the...
Dec 30, 2012 | Custodial Rape, Death Penalty, Gender Issues, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR mourns the death of the 23-year-old victim of an intensely violent attack and gang rape. However, rather than giving in to anger caused by this distress, we believe that this is a time to reflect on the constitutive contexts that produce an event and figure out...
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...
Mar 31, 2012 | Adivasis, Gender Issues, Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
This report covers in detail the story of violence perpetrated against a 35-year-old tribal woman, Soni Sori, by the Chhattisgarh police and the prison authorities of the jail where she is imprisoned. The report highlights this relatively pervasive aspect of violence...
Feb 9, 2012 | Custodial Rape, Gender Issues, Others
It is with great dismay and outrage that PUDR condemns the award of President’s Police medal to Dantewada Superintendent Ankit Garg. He is the officer accused by Soni Sori of having inflicted grave sexual violence upon her while she was in his custody in Dantewada....
