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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An Unrecorded Crime: Rape in Police Custody at Malviya Nagar Police Station
This report is about the rape of a 35-year-old woman by the policemen of Malviya Nagar Police Station at her own house in Lal Gumbad Jhuggi camp during an assault on the Jhuggi dwellers by a contingent of around 60 policemen. Police Action on jhuggi dwellers came in...
Gopalpur: Steel Plant, Displacement and People’s Struggle
In August 1995, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) and the Government of Orissa for the setting up of a steel plant and township, near the well-known Gopalpur beach and port, in Chhatarpur and Berhampur blocks of...
Resources of Hope: Workers’ Struggle in Fashion Team
Not many people know that a month-long workers' struggle in Fashion Team, a garment unit, has succeeded in making the management agree to take back 191 workers who were forcibly thrown out of the factory premises when they reported for duty on 2 April 1997. To...
संभावना की किरण: ओखला में फ़ैशन टीम के कर्मचारिओ का संघर्ष
मजदूरों की छटनी; गैरकानूनी तरीके से बर्खास्तगी; पुलिस, प्रशासन और मैनेजमेंट की मिलीभत और मजदूर के लिए बने क़ानूनों को पूरी तरह से लागू करने मे असक्छम विभाग। इन सबों की बीच फ़ैशन टीम के मजदूरों द्वारा, पुर्वांचल मजदूर ट्रेड यूनियन और दिल्ली जनरल मजदूर फ्रंट के सहयोग से...
Voices of Protest: Workers’ Struggle at Wazirpur
The Supreme Court gave an amended order in 1996 for the relocation and closure of polluting factories in Delhi. For workers, the order had a provision of compensation in case of loss of jobs due to relocation or closure. In this state of affairs where more than half...
Latest Press Statements
The lynch mob of Latehar
In the early hours of 18th March 2016, Mohammad Majloom Ansari (35) and Inayahtullah Khan (12) were found hanging from a tree in the Balumath forest area in Latehar, Jharkhand. Residents of Balugoan and Nawada villages, Ansari and young Khan were on their way to the...
Manual Scavenging must End
Manual scavenging is a caste based occupation wherein a certain sub-caste of Dalits are condemned to manually clean, carry, dispose or handle in any manner human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Though it has been constitutionally banned for more than twenty...
पीयूडीआर मांग करता है कि मुज़फ्फरनगर दंगों के गवाहों को न्यायालयों द्वारा तुरंत सुरक्षा दी जाए, और न्यायपूर्ण फैसले दिए जाएँ !
2013 में मुज़फ्फरनगर में हुऐ दंगों से सम्बंधित हत्याओं, बलात्कार, लूट और आगज़नी के मामलों में आरोपियों के बरी होने की खबरें लगातार सामने आ रही हैं | पीयूडीआर चिंता व्यक्त करता है कि 2013 में मुज़फ्फरनगर के दंगों के बाद डर और खुली छूट का जो माहौल बना था, वह आज भी बरकरार...
How democracy ‘uses’ a colonial law
PUDR has continually critiqued the existence of the colonial law of sedition and its unconstitutional application at the behest of those who hold state power, in cases that do not stand the test of law. The arrest of SAR Geelani, Professor at the University of Delhi,...
Condemning the vigilante action at the Patiala House Courts, New Delhi
PUDR strongly condemns the shocking acts of physical violence and abuse perpetrated by 40 advocates and BJP MLA OP Sharma against students and faculty of the Jawaharlal Nehru University and media persons today, at the Patiala House court, in full presence of the...