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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Condemn the Unfair Trial and Conviction of Dr. Binayak Sen and Others
Let us strongly protest against the conviction order of the Sessions Court at Raipur sentencing Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment, because the conviction of all three in this case is based on flimsy, unsubstantiated and fabricated...
Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process (CDRO Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey)
This report was released by the CDRO investigation team in Delhi on 8th October 2010 after a fact-finding of the so-called encounter place and also meeting the local villagers, local police and local media personnel and after pursuing the FIR, inquest and postmortem...
अधूरे वादे: हरदा में जंगल एवं जमीन के लिए संघर्ष
To download the report, click below: अधूरे वादे: हरदा में जंगल एवं जमीन के लिए संघर्ष For the English version of the report, click below: Unkept Promises: The Struggle for Forests, Land and Wages in...
Unkept Promises: The Struggle for Forests, Land and Wages in Harda
In 2006, the Government of India passed the Scheduled Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act which legalised individual and collective ownership of land occupied by tribal and non-tribal communities residing on forest lands...
Commonwealth Games: Monitoring Committee Report
Report of the Committee, (Constituted by the Hon'ble High Court, of Delhi in WP (Civil) No. 524/2010 in People's Union for Democratic Rights and Others Vs. Union of India and two others on 3.2.2010 On Matters pertaining to working and living conditions of workers in...
Latest Press Statements
PUDR Condemns the arrest of Abhay Devdas Nayak
A 34-year-old 'techie' Abhay Devdas Nayak was abducted by the Chattisgarh police on 31 May 2018 from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport and presented before the media on 12 June, as a "top Maoist propagandist." That he could be picked up by the police and...
Major Gogoi and the Continuing Culture of Impunity
On May 30, 2018, the Jammu and Kashmir Police filed a status report before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Srinagar regarding the case of sexual favours that Major Gogoi of 53 Rashtriya Rifles sought from a local Kashmiri woman, on May 23, 2018. The police claimed...
PUDR remembers Justice Rajinder Sachar
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses its condolences on the demise of Justice Rajinder Sachar. A leading civil rights activist, Justice Rajinder Sachar will be remembered for his democratic commitments and deep concern for the marginalized and...
No encounter happened in Gadchiroli on April 22nd 2018
The killings of at least 37 Maoists by the combined force of the CRPF and the C-60, the elite unit of the Gadchiroli Police, on 22nd and 23rd April 2018 raises some very disturbing questions about the state’s methods of conducting ‘encounters’. In the morning of 22nd...
22 अप्रैल, 2018 में गढचिरौली में हुई माओवादियों की हत्या मुठभेड़ नहीं थी।
22 और 23 अप्रैल को सी.आर.पी.एफ. और गढ़चिरोली पुलिस के विशेष दस्ते सी-60 द्वारा की गई 37 माओवादियों की हत्या की घटना सरकार के ‘‘मुठभेड़’’ के तरीकों पर कई सवाल खड़े करती है। 22 अप्रैल की सुबह 64 पुलिसकर्मी और अर्द्धसैनिकों ने पूर्वी महाराष्ट्र के भमरागढ़़ इलाके में स्थित...