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In the Name of Science and Public Health: Concerns About the Safety of Pentavalent Vaccine

Apr 1, 2014 | Others, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights

The introduction of the pentavalent vaccine in India in December 2011 as part of the immunization programme of the Government has had a chequered history. The pentavalent vaccine (a combination vaccine for protection against five childhood diseases- diphtheria,...

Adverse events following Pentavalent vaccination in Kashmir

Nov 13, 2013 | Others

The pentavalent vaccine for protection against five childhood diseases was introduced in Jammu & Kashmir in February 2013, as part the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). Three doses of this vaccine replace the conventional DPT vaccine which protects against...

CDRO Tribute on the Untimely Death Of Three Civil And Democratic Rights Activists

Jan 30, 2013 | Others

The member organisations of CDRO are saddened by the death of three democratic and civil liberty activists in the last one week – Professor Dipankar Chakroborty, Vice President of Association for Protection of Democratic (APDR), West Bengal; Chandrasekar (47), civil...

PUDR mourns the loss of Dipankar Chakrabory, founder editor of Aneek and co-founder of APDR

Jan 29, 2013 | Others

PUDR mourns the loss of Dipankar Chakrabory, founder editor of Aneek and co-founder of APDR (Association of Democratic Rights). Chakraborty (71) passed away in his residence in Kolkata after suffering a cardiac arrest on 27th January 2013. Chakraborty was a widely...

PUDR’s submission of suggestions to Verma Commission for changes in law and procedure regarding violence against women

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...

A developed country is not one where the poor own cars. It is one where the rich use public transport.

Oct 23, 2012 | Others

PUDR welcomes the October 18 Delhi High Court judgment by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Manmohan Singh on the Delhi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. The judgement rejected a PIL filed by an NGO, Nyaya Bhoomi, that demanded the scrapping of the BRT system...

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