May 23, 2013 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights, Working Class
On18 July 2012 a violent incident occurred at the Manesar unit of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), in which an HR manager died and some other managers as well as workers were injured. Following reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families in...
May 13, 2013 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR unequivocally condemns the undemocratic ways of the Odisha government in trying to further corporate interests under the rhetoric of development, subjecting the locals to repression, displacement and a threat to survival. The arrest of Abhay Sahu, leader of the...
May 10, 2013 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights, Working Class
The Haryana Government yet again in a brazen and outright cowardly manner has sought to protect the interest of capital and particularly the management of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd by refusing to allow the victimised workers and their families to undertake a peaceful...
Apr 19, 2013 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws
This resolution was adopted by JKCCS in a public meeting on Asia Jeenlan’s ninth death anniversary held in Srinagar on 20th April 2013. The theme of the public meeting was Institutional Violence: The Indian State in Jammu & Kashmir. The resolution was...
Mar 12, 2013 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) at its meeting held during February 20-21 gave permission to the public sector SAIL to divert 210.526 ha of forest land in Jhillingburu of Saranda (Jharkhand) for iron ore mining. This was the second such project cleared by the FAC...
Mar 8, 2013 | Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Democracy within its value frame assumes the right to protest as a vital means towards ensuring the guarantee of those rights and values it stands for. However, today we are witnessing a different ‘culture of democracy’ where the right to protest is increasingly...