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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Stop suppression of the right to defend civil rights!: PUDR Condemns Smear Campaign by Maharashtra Police
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly protests the accusation by the Maharashtra police claiming that the PUDR is a frontal organisation of the CPI (Maoist) party. This is a blatant attempt to threaten and restrict the functioning of one of...
नागरिक अधिकारों के पक्ष में उठती आवाज़ों को कुचलना बंद करो!: महाराष्ट्र पुलिस द्वारा पीयूडीआर को बदनाम करने की कोशिश की निंदा!
पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स महाराष्ट्र पुलिस द्वारा पीयूडीआर पर सीपीआई (माओइस्ट) पार्टी का ‘फ्रंटल’ संगठन होने के दावे की कड़ी निंदा करता है | यह खुलेआम, भारत के एक सबसे पुराने जनवादी संगठन को धमकी देने और उसके काम पर रोक लगाने की कोशिश है | पीयूडीआर और...
THE MISSING TERROR PLOT: BHIMA KOREGAON and the POLITICS OF UAPA
In the wake of the recent raids and arrests of 5 prominent rights activists, Varavara Rao, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Arun Ferreira, on UAPA charges for their alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon case, PUDR is releasing its report, The...
Joint Statement Against Continuing Arrests of Rights Activists
We, the undersigned, strongly oppose and condemn the illegal raids carried out in different cities, and arrests of Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao by the Maharashtra Police on 28 th August 2018. These are only the...
तू जिंदा है!
The country is witnessing another round of crackdown on Human Rights Activists. While Arun Ferreira (Advocate), Sudha Bhardwaj (Trade Unionist, Teacher and Advocate), Gautam Navlakha (Editor and Writer), Varvara Rao (Writer and Literary critic) and Vernon Gonsalves...
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जिंदगियों की कीमत
छत्तीसगढ़ में अबूझमाड़ के घने जंगलों के भीतर ११ फरवरी २०११ को बहुत गहरे राजनीतिक और ऐतिहासिक घटना घटी. इस दिन सीपीआई (माओवादी) ने मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ताओं और मीडिया के चुनिंदा सदस्यों के सामने छत्तीसगढ़ पुलिस के पांच जवानों को रिहा किया. सीपीआई (माओवादी) २५ जनवरी २०११ को...
Nandini Sundar & ORS. Vs. State of Chhattisgarh
Judgment delivered by the Supreme Court, in which it has struck down as ‘unconstitutional’ the practice of arming local tribal youth as special police officers (SPOs) in order to fight the Maoists. The Judgment asked the state government to immediately stop using...
Chintalnar Massacre Report
Report of a 13-member fact-finding team of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations who visited the Chintalnar Area of Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh to probe into the incidents of atrocities perpetrated by the Salwa Judum and the state forces on the...
खेल खतम पैसा हज़म
राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल के निर्माण कार्य में मजदुरों के शोषण की कहानी पर एक रिपोर्ट. To download the report, click below: खेल खतम पैसा...
Of Human Bondage: An Account of Hostage Taking in Bastar
An event of great political and historical significance occurred on 11 February 2011 inside the dense forests of Abujhmad in Chhattisgarh with the CPI (Maoist) releasing five policemen of the Chhattisgarh police force, abducted by them on 25 January 2011, before a...
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