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 11, 2012 | Adivasis, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
An all-India fact-finding team of rights activists belonging to the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) visited the area in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh where 17 adivasis died as a result of firing by CRPF forces on the night of June 28, 2012....
Jul 4, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR condemns the cold- blooded and cowardly murder by security forces of 19 villagers of Sarkelguda in Chhattisgarh including five children in age group of 12-15 killed with bullets, axes and knife wounds, as well as sexual assault of four teenaged girls The incident...
May 23, 2012 | Adivasis, Caste, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
Jharkhand is fast becoming a military state. Similar to operation green hunt which was started three years ago in mineral rich forest areas resided by adivasis, brutal operations are being carried out continuously in Jharkhand as well. ‘Operation Anaconda’ was...
May 15, 2012 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the police action on the peaceful anti-dam protestors in Lakhimpur district of Assam on 11 May 2012. These protestors, who were sitting in the camp, are peacefully demonstrating against the upcoming big dam on river Subansiri, which is...
Oct 30, 2011 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
A fact-finding committee of ten members from six rights organisations – People’s Union for Civil Liberties (Odisha), Organisation for Protection of Democratic Rights (Andhra Pradesh), Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (West Bengal), Human Rights...
