The civil rights movement in India has emerged as an autonomous voice in defense of civil liberties and democratic rights of our people. The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, is one such organisation. It came into existence in 1977 as the Delhi unit of a larger national forum, PUCLDR, and became PUDR on 1 February, 1981.
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Stand up and defend the striking workers of Honda two-wheelers! Stand up for the right to unionise!
2500 contract workers and 200 permanent workers of Honda Company at Tapukhera (Rajasthan-Haryana border) stand dismissed by the management since February, 2016. Why? Download this report 2016-english_honda_parcha.pdf
Stand in Solidarity with the People’s Struggle in Kashmir!
CDRO urges you to understand that truth has another side which must also be brought before the public. It is, therefore, Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations stands in solidarity with the peoples of J&K in their struggle to be Free and condemns the use...
कश्मीरी जनता के संघर्ष के साथ एक जुटता में खड़े हों – सीडीआरओ
18 जुलाई 2016 जब बुरहन मुजफ्फर वानी मारा गया था, तब से कश्मीर घाटी में इस हत्या के खिलाफ व्यापक विरोध-प्रदर्शन होता जा रहा है। सरकार इसे रोकने के लिए विभिन्न तरीके अपना रही है। जगह-जगह बन्द व कर्फ्यु लगा रही है। अपनी सैन्य व पुलीस बलों द्वारा क्रूर दमन चला रही है।...
CDRO Campaign for Release of Political Prisoners
One of the foundational demands of the Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights organisations in India was the demand for release of all Political Prisoners. In contemporary India the demand has acquired a new salience as members/supporters of proscribed/banned...
Life and Death at AIIMS: A Report on Construction Accidents and the Course of Justice
On 9th March 2016, the media reported an accident at a construction site of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi in which two workers were killed and three were injured. In less than 35 days, on 13th April 2016, another accident took place at the...
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The Lessons of Bhima Koregaon: No Bail, Only Jail
With the surrenders of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha on April 14, 2020 in Mumbai and Delhi respectively, the NIA, the investigative agency, has ensured the arrest of all 11 prominent human rights activists in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case under the draconian...
Condemn the surreptitious transfer of Gautam Navlakha to Taloja Jail in Maharashtra
People's Union for Democratic Rights is aghast at the National Investigating Agency (NIA) surreptitiously whisking away Gautam Navlakha from the Tihar Jail to Mumbai on 25 May 2020, without informing his lawyers or his family. 67-year old Gautam Navlakha was arrested...
NE Delhi Riots: Demanding a Status Report – Make Investigations Transparent and FIRs public
About eighty days after the riots that convulsed NE Delhi, what is the status of the investigation into the ‘over 700’ FIRs reportedly registered, according to the Home Minister’s statement in Parliament on 11 March, two months ago? If recent media reportage of the...
Release Vulnerable Prisoners Now!
PUDR expresses apprehensions over the health status of Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha who surrendered before the NIA in Mumbai and Delhi respectively on 14 April 2020. Both are implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case of January 2018 in which eleven human rights...
गौतम नवलखा और आनंद तेलतुम्बड़े की गिरफ़्तारियों का विरोध करो !: भीमा कोरेगाँव मामले में गिरफ़्तार 11 लोगों की रिहाई की माँग करो !
मानावधिकार कार्यकर्ता आनंद तेलतुम्बड़े और गौतम नवलखा को, देश भर में फैले कोरोना वायरस के संकट के बीच, एन.आई.ए. के समक्ष ‘सरेंडर’ करवाया जाना, आधुनिक भारत के राजनैतिक इतिहास में ओछेपन का एक नया स्तर है | पिछले दो वर्षों से देश भर में जनवादी अधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं, वकीलों...