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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Discharge of Sadhvi Pragya and others in the Malegaon Blast case: Saffronization of Constitutional Agencies
The month of May began with the BJP demanding action against the water mafia in Mumbai under the Maharashatra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA). On the 10th of May Atikh Khan, Rafiq Khan and Javed, all three ragpickers, were charged with MCOCA for allegedly...
PUDR condemns the deplaning of Gladson Dungdung
“I started travelling to the Red Corridor in order to collect evidence that this is not a war against terrorism, the so-called Naxalite insurgency by the CPI-Maoists but a war against the Adivasis. The hidden goal is to snatch their resources i.e. their lands, their...
पीयूडीआर छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के बस्तर ज़िले में पत्रकारों के खिलाफ चलाए जा रहे सुनियोजित अभियान की कड़ी निंदा करता है
पीयूडीआर छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के बस्तर ज़िले में पत्रकारों के खिलाफ चलाए जा रहे सरकार के सुनियोजित अभियान की कड़ी निंदा करता है | इस संदर्भ में पीयूडीआर छत्तीसगढ़ के पत्रकारों की तरफ से बनाई गई पत्रकार सुरक्षा क़ानून संयुक्त संघर्ष समिति व पत्रकारिता की सुरक्षा और स्वतंत्रता की...
PUDR condemns police apathy in the case of brutal caste and gender based violence against Dalit law student in Kerala
PUDR strongly condemns the gruesome rape and murder of the Dalit law student in Kerala’s Perumbavoor district on 28th April 2016, and the appalling indifference demonstrated by the police in securing justice for her. The mutilation of her body is symptomatic of the...
सीडीआरओ, डब्लूएसएस की जाँच रिपोर्ट ‘सीज़ ऑफ़ स्टेट: रिपोर्ट ओन एन्काउंटरस एंड केसिस ऑफ़ सैक्सुअ वाएलेंस इन बीजापुर एंड सुकमा डिस्ट्रिक्टस ऑफ़ छत्तीसगढ़’
कोऑरर्डिनेशन ऑफ़ डैमोक्रैटिक राइट्स ओर्गानिज़ेश्न्स (सीडीआरओ) और वीमेन अगेन्सट सैक्सुअल वायेलेंस एंड स्टेट रिप्रैशन (डब्लूएसएस) ने 16 से 22 जनवरी 2016 के बीच छत्तीसगढ़ के बीजापुर और सुकुमा जिलों के गाँवों में एक जाँच की। जाँच दल ने 15 जनवरी को पेद्दाजोजेर (बीजापुर) गाँव...
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The Other Side of the Success Story: Work Conditions, Accidents and Workers’ Rights at Hindalco
On 10 April 1996, a sizable portion of the wall of a fly ash disposal pond belonging to Hindalco Industries Ltd. collapsed at Renukoot town. Approximately 22,500 tonnes of the ash and water sludge swept the valley area up to the Rihand river covering a distance of...
A Tale of Two Cities: Custodial Death and Police Firing in Ashok Vihar
The report starts with the death of the 19-year-old Jhuggi Dweller, Dilip who had reportedly gone to relieve himself in a nearby park in Ashok Vihar and was harassed to death by policemen present in the park. Four other jhuggi residents died and 16 were injured in the...
Behind High Walls: Custodial Death in Tihar Jail
On July 15, 1996, a newspaper reported the death of an undertrial, Yasin Ahmed, under "mysterious circumstance". He had been in jail for slightly under three months. PUDR team conducted a fact-finding investigation and met jail officials, Yasin's family members and...
Parag Das and Z.V. Yaopei: Martyrs of the Democratic Rights Movement
Civil rights activist and editor of Asomiya Protidin Parag Das was assassinated on 17 May 1996 in Guwahati in broad daylight, while picking up his son from school. He played an active role in the formation of the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti in 1991. At the time of...
Maze of Inquiries: Custodial Rape at Deshbandhu Gupta Road P.S.
On the night of 20 January 1996, a boy along with his sister and niece were picked up by the police personnel of Deshbandhu Gupta Road P.S. Both the women were raped inside the Police Station. Women were allowed to go the next day and the boy was kept for one more...
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