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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DISSENTING VOICES
Voices of poets from some of the languages in India. This collection is not representative but only a small sample of what is available. This anthology, however feeble, shows that the poetic conscience of India is not silent at the time of crisis. To download the...
Latest Press Statements
CDRO press release on findings of the fact finding team in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra: Released at the Press Conference at Nagpur
Six cases of encounters in Gadchiroli district have been reported in the press this year. A total of 26 persons have lost their lives in these encounters. People from the villages where the encounters took place have questioned the veracity of the police claims. The...
CDRO Condemns the Gruesome Murder of Ganti Prasadam
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) strongly condemns the brutal and horrifying murder of Ganti Prasadam, the former leader of the Maoist Party and present honorary President of Amarula Bandumitrula Committee, by the state sponsored criminal gang....
One Step Forward with Uncertainties Ahead
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) welcomes the decision of the Judicial Magistrate, Kupwara (J&K) on 18th June 2013, asking for “further investigation to unravel the identity of those who happen to be perpetrators” of mass rape which took...
A Not So Mysterious Death: The Death of Khalid Mujahid
PUDR strongly condemns the death of Khalid Mujahid, an undertrial arrested in 2007 in connection with bomb blasts in UP earlier that year. Mujahid died on 19 May, 2013 when he was being escorted by a team of the Uttar Pradesh state police from a court in Faizabad to...
Unending Spiral of Violence: Darbha
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) notes with concern the sad loss of 30 lives in the Maoist attack on the “Parivartan Rally” of Congress Party on 25 May 2013. This is the latest in the series of killings, big and small, in the ongoing undeclared war that...