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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Who Burnt Basanti Devi
A PUDR inquiry report on the alleged custodial torture of Basanti Devi, a 34 year old woman sparated from her husband, by the police sub inspector in-charge of the Anand Van police post, Shakarpur, West, Delhi, on the evening of June 30, 1981. Basanti Devi is also the...
Adivasis of Adilabad: Investigation into Inderavallli Firing
PUDR team visited Adilabad to get first hand report on the police firing at Inderaveli on April 20, 1981, to ascertain the fact leading to the firing and the socio-economic back ground tho the tension which prevails in the region. The team visited Adilabad town,...
Bilaspur Incident caste conflict between Harijans and Jaat families
On March 21, 6 Chamar families had their jhuggies burnt down and a newly constructed house destroyed. The circumstantial evidence points strongly to a group of Jaat farmers led by one Shri Subh Ram as having perpetrated the outrage. The district authorities and...
Six Parliaments And Democratic Rights
In the last 32 years six parliaments have come and gone, five prime ministers have changed, promises were made and assurances given. But the assault on people’s democratic rights has continued. The ordinary masses of India, toiling day in and day out with no security...
Report Of The PUCL&DR (Delhi) Fact Finding Team On Faridabad Incidents Of 17th October, 1979
On Oct 1979 Haryana Police ran berserk and killed innocent people in Faridabad. and then engaged in concealing and destroying all evidence of their misdeeds. This report is the result of fact finding conducted by PUCL&DR which met victims of firing, talked to...
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शामली और मुज़फ्फरनगर के दंगा राहत शिविर में रह रहे लोगों के हालातों पर एक रिपोर्ट
उत्तर प्रदेश के मुज़फ्फरनगर, शामली, बाघपत, मेरठ, और सहारनपुर जिलों के ग्रामीण इलाकों में सितम्बर के पहले हफ़्ते में हुए दंगों के बाद से हज़ारों मुसलमान चार महीने से राहत शिविरों में रह रहे हैं | पिछले हफ़्ते से, उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने जबरन शिविर बंद करने और लोगों को वहाँ...
Status Report on Condition of Persons living in Riot Relief Camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Following the unprecedented outbreak of riots in the rural areas of Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Meerut and Saharanpur districts of Uttar Pradesh in the first week of September, tens of thousands of Muslim families have been living in relief camps for the last four...
Armed Conflicts and the Protection of Non-combatants: Condemn Killing of Media Persons by CPI (Maoist)
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights condemns the killing of Sai Reddy, a correspondent of Deshbandhu, a Hindi newspaper, based in Bijapur in south Bastar, Chhattisgarh on December 6, 2013. In a statement issued on December 10, 2013, the South Regional Committee of...
Re-criminalizing same sex relations – a blow to equality and dignity
The Peoples’ Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses deep disappointment at the Supreme Court ruling making homosexual relations between consenting adults an offence. In an affirmation of the rights of Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) persons, the Delhi...
Adverse events following Pentavalent vaccination in Kashmir
The pentavalent vaccine for protection against five childhood diseases was introduced in Jammu & Kashmir in February 2013, as part the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). Three doses of this vaccine replace the conventional DPT vaccine which protects against...