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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एक और टाडा नहीं: प्रस्तावित प्रिवेनशन आफ टैरोरिस्म बिल की आलोचना
पी. यू. डी. आर. ने अन्य जनवादी संगठनों के साथ मिलकर समय समय पर टाडा तहत बार बार गिरफ्तार किए गए लोगों और उनकी असीम यंत्रणाओं को संकलित किया है। इन रेपोर्टों में सिर्फ कानून की छिटपुट उलंघनों का ही विस्तार नही है बल्कि बल्कि टाडा कानून के ढाचे में निहित प्रावधानों पर...
Not Another Terrorist Law Please: A Critique of the Proposed Criminal Law Amendment Bill
UDR and other civil rights organisations 'have time and again attempted to chronicle the immense human suffering that the earlier TADA inflicted on hundreds of ordinary men and women detained under it. This suffering was not an outcome of 'stray cases of abuse' but...
Workers’ Death and Working Lives: Accident at Virgo Washing Co., Okhla Industrial Estate
In one of the most serious industrial accidents in Delhi in recent years, six workers died from an explosion and fire in a fabric-washing factory within the Okhla Industrial Estate on 16 September. Twelve workers were inside the factory at the time. The accident took...
Raped and Condemned: Custodial Rape of a Sex Worker
On 30 September 1999, a 30-year-old sex worker and a mother of two children was abducted from G.B. Road on her way back from fetching milk by Constable Deepak Dubey of the Kamla Market P.S. She was brutally raped and sodomised by Dubey, his cousin Sanjeev Dikshit and...
Packaging Injustice: The Story of Flex Workers
The struggle of workers of Flex Industries Ltd at Noida against the illegal termination of 54 workers. The assault on the workers' rights was the move to institute a three-shift system while using the same number of workers. The workers of Flex are being made to bear...
Latest Press Statements
मोदी सरकार को किस बात का डर?
16 सितम्बर 2016 को उना दलित अत्याचार लड़त समिति के संयोजक एवं युवा नेता जिगनेश मेवानी को अहमदाबाद पुलिस ने पकड़ लिया | मेवानी को उस समय पकड़ा गया जब वह दिल्ली से लौटे | वे दिल्ली में जंतर मंतर पर दलित स्वाभिमान संघर्ष समिति द्वारा आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में आमसभा को संबोधित...
PUDR Salutes Shri Bojja Tharakam
People’s Union for Democratic Rights expresses its sincere condolences at the death of Shri. Bojja Tarakam, a tall figure fighting the cause of the Dalits, Minorities and a strong defender of civil liberties movements in the country for the last 50 years. He was a...
Between Innocence and Death:The case of Muslim under-trials accused of anti-state activities
PUDR strongly condemns the biased nature of investigations, the shortcomings of judicial processes, and the use of anti-democratic laws, which violate the fundamental freedoms of Muslim men accused of anti-state activity. Yet another replay of the same old story was...
CDRO Statement: Resistance is Existence
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization denounces the arrest of Khurram Parvez on the intervening night of 15-16 September at 12.30 AM from his house at Srinagar. He had returned from Delhi in the very morning of 15th September after being detained for nearly...
When Questions of Rights and Justice Become Seditious for a Democracy
The use of repressive laws, particularly the law of sedition, to silence emerging voices of rights and justice, has become a matter of routine, particularly in the present context of the Indian state facing a legitimacy crisis in Kashmir. The Bengaluru police on 15th...