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.
“Close to the one-year anniversary of violence in Nuh district, Haryana, PUDR released its report on ongoing state repression in the aftermath of July 31, 2023. Justice Madan Lokur (retd., Supreme Court) and Professor Manoranjan Mohanty (retd., Delhi University) launched “In the wake of Nuh: A report on state repression” on July 29, 2024 at Press Club of India.
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युद्ध-क्षेत्र में आदिवासी जिंदगियाँ: बीजापुर के गावों में सुरक्षा कैंप के बीच असुक्षित जीवन
दिसंबर 2014 में पी. यू. डी. आर. का एक जांच दल छत्तीसगढ़ के बीजापुर जिले के 9 गांवों में गया. जांच दाल ने क्षेत्रों में माओवादियों से लड़ने के लिए तैनात सुरक्षा बलों के द्वारा की जा रही गिरफ्तारिओ, धमकियों एवं उत्पीड़न के साथ -साथ यौन उत्पीड़न की घटनाओं को दर्ज़...
War and the Lightness of Being Adivasi: Security Camps and Villages in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh
Since June-July 2014, reports have been filtering in regarding the intensification of Operation Green Hunt in the forest villages of Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Civil rights organizations have been receiving requests to send teams in order to investigate what...
Say Yes to Justice: Say No to Hanging of Surender Koli
On 27th January 2015, the Allahabad High Court will decide whether Surender Koli will live or die as it will hear a petition asking for commutation of his death penalty on grounds of delay. Koli, the Dalit manservant of Moninder Pandher, was charged with heinous...
The Jihad is not Against Love Only!
‘Love Jihad’ is a name given to a kind of movement whereby women from non-Muslim communities are allegedly ‘lured’ into marrying Muslim men as a way of furthering conversion to Islam. The issue of ‘Love Jihaad’ dates back to 2009 when in Kerala a case was reported....
Decision to hang Surender Koli: Yet Another Error of Judgement?
The Nithari case made headlines in 2006 when fifteen skeletons were unearthed from a house in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, following the investigation into the disappearance case in which a number of children and a woman went missing. House owner Moninder Singh Pandher and...
Latest Press Statements
Condemn the issuing of arrest warrants against Stan Swamy, Aloka Kujur, Vinod Kumar, Rakesh Roshan Kiro and Babita Kashyap : Stop harassment of Rights Activists in Jharkhand
PUDR condemns the arrest warrant issued against Stan Swamy, Aloka Kujur, Vinod Kumar, Rakesh Roshan Kiro and Babita Kashyap on 19 June 2019, in relation to FIR filed on 26 July 2018 for waging war against the state, sedition, conspiracy, and Sections 66 and 66A IT Act...
Release Jnyanadeep Gogoi and Repeal UAPA!
PUDR unequivocally condemns the arrest of Jnyanadeep Gogoi, a 31-year-old employee of ONGC, on false allegations of waging war and participating in unlawful and terrorist activities for his Facebook posts on ULFA (I) i.e. United Liberation Front of Assam...
Bauxite Mining at any cost: Targeted persecution by the Odisha Government
PUDR expresses shock and concern at the manner in which the Office of the Superintendent of Police, Kalahandi in Odisha is issuing threats and intimidation of encounter deaths to public spirited individuals and professionals in the Niyamgiri region in the course of...
Supreme Injustices
Today on the 8th of May, 2019, on a second day in succession, people protesting at Connaught Place, against the “clean chit” given to Justice Gogoi by an in-house inquiry that violated established procedures and principles and demanding an independent inquiry, were...
गढ़चिरौली की विस्फोट की घटना पर राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग (एन.एच.आर.सी.) का अनुचित बयान
1 मई, 2019 को गढ़चिरौली के कुरखेड़ा तहसील में माओवादियों द्वारा किये गए एक विस्फोट में सी-60 पुलिस बल के 15 जवान और एक गाड़ी चालक की घटना स्थल पर मृत्यु हो गई थी। इसी हिंसक घटना का खंडन करते हुए राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग द्वारा एक बयान जारी किया गया। हिंसा की वारदात एक...