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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When the State Makes War on its own People: Violation of peoples rights during the Salwa Judum
Since June 2005, Dantewada District (formerly part of Bastar district), Chhattisgarh, has been in the news for an alleged uprising of adivasis against the Communist Party of India (Maoist), known as Salwa Judum. A fourteen-member team from five organizations (PUCL,...
बंद दरवाजों के पीछे: विशवास नगर की वस्त्र उद्योग फैक्ट्री में आग लगने से मौतें
इस रिपोर्ट में विशवास नगर स्थित महिलाओं के अंदरूनी वस्त्र बनाने वाली एक जानी-मानी कम्पनी, ग्रोवर संस अपारेल्स की एक उत्पादन इकाई की तीसरी मंजिल में आग लग जाने से १२ मजदूरों की मौतों की दर्दनाक व् शोषित तस्वीर उजागर की गई है| रिपोर्ट दिखाती है कि किस प्रकार फैक्ट्री...
Trapped to Death: Deaths from fire at a Garment Factory in Vishwas Nagar
On the morning of 7 December, a fire, resulting in the death of twelve workers, broke out on the second floor of Groversons Apparels Pvt. Ltd., a garment-manufacturing unit in Vishwas Nagar, East Delhi. PUDR conducted an investigation into the incident. To download...
Suicide in a lock-up? Custody Death at Adarsh Nagar PS
On 13th September 2005, on the ever busy Azadpur Mandi main road, a public protest by basti dwellers of Bharola village in the middle of the day caught the attention of the media. As trucks, buses and tempos were unable to ply on the main GT road for over two hours,...
Information relating to the execution of the death penalty in Pune Central Jail
Information relating to the execution of the death penalty in Pune Central Jail, from 1952 to 1992. To download the report click below Executions_Pune.pdf
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बस्तर में सीडीआरओ का दौरा
कोर्डिनेशन ऑफ डेमोक्रेटिक राइट्स ऑर्गेनाइजेशन (सीडीआरओ) के 18 सदस्यीय टीम जांच के लिए बीते हफ्ते बस्तर के दौरे पर आई थी। टीम इसी साल नगरनार स्टील प्लांट के निजीकरण, पालनार कन्या छात्रावास में 16 छात्राओं (नाबालिग) के साथ छेड़-छाड़ व लैंगिक हिंसा एवं बुर्कापाल के...
CDRO Fact Finding in Bastar
An 18 members team, consisting of 7 organisations belonging to the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) visited Nagar Nar and met leaders of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) unions working in...
Condemn Exploitation and Harassment of Workers at Vivo India Pvt. Ltd
The ‘Make in India’ drive and its claim of generating employment by getting multi-national companies to manufacture in India is characterized by appalling and inhuman work ‘opportunities’ of which the Vivo India Pvt Ltd is a glaring example. Vivo Company is a Chinese...
Machil fake encounter: hopes belied
News reports of 27.07.2017 state that an Armed Forces Tribunal has suspended the life sentences awarded by a General Court Martial in 2014 and which were confirmed in 2015, to five army personnel for the killings of three Kashmiri civilians in April 2010, at Machil....
Moderne’ India: Communal attacks, arrests and eviction of migrant workers in Noida, UP
PUDR investigated the aftermath of July 12, 2017, when Zohra Bibi, a domestic worker in Noida’s Mahagun Moderne, was severely beaten up and later went missing from her employer’s flat after allegations of theft were leveled against her. Subsequently, the local police,...