PUDR - Violation of labour laws at the Commonwealth Games Construction sites continues unabated in spite of the High Court case

Lalgarh - Letter from Nari Ijjat Bnachao Committee to Kabir Suman

Aneek Special Issue on “Social Revolution and Armed Struggle”

Kolkata - Screening of exclusive footage of Salwa Judum, August 26

West Bengal - A Debate on the support to Mamata Banerjee

Faking An Ecounter: Killing the Peace Process

More than Just an Arrest

People’s Movements oppose the possible re-introduction of the land acquisition and resettlement-rehabilitation bill

Delhi Declaration of All India Left Coordination

PUDR statement on the arrest of Naba Dutta

Kolkata - Renowned Human Rights Defender Naba Dutta is in police custody under false charges

Response of various left formations to the Lalgarh rally by Mamata Banerjee and CPI(M) mini congress in Vijaywada

The cold-blooded murder in Jharkhand

A Report of Anti-OGH protest in New York on August 13, 2010

This is your Army Mr Chidambaram!

Orissa - Anti-Vedanta Dongria Kondh leader Lado Sikaka abducted

People’s Movements Warn Corporations and Issue Ultimatum to Quit Their Land, Rivers and Forests

Operation Green Hunt Protest in San Francisco: Aug 13

For Whom Are The Forests Turning Red ?

Barwani, Madhya Pradesh - Adivasis jam police stations protesting wrongful arrests

Open Letter to Swami Agnivesh from Srikant, Central Committee member of CPI(Maoist)

Resolution of the All India Convention against the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act

The sad story of dispossession and criminalisation of the Adivasis of Central India

Delhi University - Interactive Discussion on The Search for Peace and State Violence

Punjab - Democratic mobilization resists police onslaught on activists

Endless Cry in the Red Corridor

Delhi - Public Meeting to protest against the killing of Azad and Hem Pandey, August 3

Andhra - Independent Fact-finding Team on the 14th July Sompeta Firing

Sonamukhi - MASUM fact-finding Report and Letter to NCW

Azad’s assassination: An insight into the Indian state’s response to peoples’ resistance

Seminar on Working Class Movement in India in the Twenty-first Century: Continuity and Change, Orientation and Possibilities, Problems and Challenges

Delhi Convention Against Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Jul 24

Lalgarh - Massive protest by women against rapes committed by security personnel

Delhi - “Role of Journalists in Undeclared Emergency” - a discussion organized by Journalists For People, July 20

Getting to know the Second Green ‘Revolutionary’ Ruler-Corporates!

APDR statement on the threat to democratic rights in West Bengal

NAPM condemns the brutal killings and lathicharge on Srikakulam villagers

Police atrocities on the women of Sonamukhi near Jhargram

Pamphlet of Matangini Mahila Samiti in protest against the charging of Debalina Chakrabarty with UAPA

Proposed second green revolution - deputation to Agriculture Minister by FAMA

Censored chapter from the IRMA Panchayati Raj report

Statements on the killing of Azad, spokesperson of CPI(Maoist), in an alleged fake encounter

Sanhati statement on the killing of Azad, spokesperson of CPI(Maoist)

Statement on arrest of Dr. Nisha Biswas and other civil rights activists in Lalgarh

Terrorizing the Democratic Space - A Report on Ranchi Rally Against OGH

APDR memorandum submitted to District Magistrate, West Midnapore, on 24 June

Letters from P. Chidambaram and CPI(Maoist) to Swami Agnivesh regarding the possibility of dialogue

Fourteen trade union leaders and activists arrested in Gujarat in the name of Maoist activity

Ranchi - Rally against Operation Green Hunt, June 25

Stop the Undeclared Emergency and Witch-hunt of Social activists & Human Rights Defenders

In defence of democracy; Affirm peoples’ resistance

Delhi Rally for Justice in Bhopal, 24 Jun

Lalgarh Mancha - Appeal for unconditional release of activists arrested in Junglemahal

PUDR Press Statement condemning recent spate of repression in Lalgarh

I Have Seen Her Crying

Sanhati Statement against arrest of activists in Lalgarh

Delhi Convention against slum evictions in name of C’Wealth Games

Why India’s AFSPA should be scrapped ?

CRPF violating PESA Act in Jharkhandi villages

Responses to Judgement on Bhopal Gas Leak of 1984 - PUDR, TASAM, ICJB, NAPM, Radical Socialists

On June 15, a protest rally is being organised in Kolkata. It begins at 4pm from the Metro Channel (Esplanade East) and will head towards the American consulate.
Click here to read the Bengali pamphlet for the rally.
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PUDR Press Statement
The Definiton of Injustice: The Bhopal Gas Murders
PUDR believes that the latest judgment on the Bhopal gas […]

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Maharashtra - Fact Finding Report on Police Firing and Reaction at Dhulia

Letter to PTI - Distorted reporting of Arundhati Roy’s speech

The Indian Government Should Surrender To The Maoists: An Immodest Proposal

Kolkata : Bidroher Gaan - A Cultural Programme against Green Hunt - June 11

Delhi - Protest Against arrests of activists in Gujarat.

Demonstration at Gujarat Bhawan, Kautilya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi on Friday, June 4 at 12 noon.
About a month back all of you may have been informed about the arrest of Avinash Kulkarni, a widely respected activist who has been working on the human rights of Adivasis in Gujarat. His contribution to the formulation of […]

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Orissa Situation Worsening

Mumbai - Report of Stop Posco demonstration

[On May 25, Mumbai saw a lively protest demonstration, under the banner of the Anti-POSCO Struggle Solidarity Front, outside the Churchgate Railway Station, the virtual heart of the city, for more than an hour during the evening. At least eighty activists from a broad spectrum of organizations gathered. Full throated slogans were raised against the […]

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Gyaneshwari Express Sabotage Indefensible - Institute Inquiry and Discourage Rumour-mongering and Witch-hunting

People’s Union for Democratic Rights Press Statement
30.5.2010
Friday morning’s derailment of the Gyaneshwari Express either due to sabotage or explosion as per media reports in which so far 136 people have already lost their lives is highly reprehensible and completely indefensible. PUDR strongly condemns whichever organization is responsible for the carnage as we believe that […]

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Open Letter to the President of India - Peace Now in Tribal Areas

News Management on the North-east

Amitav Ghosh and the Dan David Prize

PUDR-AFDR Press Release on State Repression on farmers and rural worker activists in Punjab

Lalgarh - Letter addressed by PCAPA to APDR, Lalgarh Mancha and the Intellectuals – 3

Attack on bus in Dantewada - Response from Arundhati Roy, PUDR, PUCL, HRF, MKP, CPIML(Liberation)

Lalgarh - Letter from PCAPA to Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), Lalgarh Mancha and Intellectuals - 2

A member of the civil society responds to Chidambaram

Mumbai - Struggle of the urban poor against slum demolitions

Open Letter to the Home Minister protesting against MHA’s attempt to silence dissent

Kolkata - National Meeting on “Displacement and Democratic Space”

The Fight for Social and Community Rights’
Saturday, 22 May 2010, 10am - 6pm
Venue- Seva Kendra, 52B, Radhanath Chowdhury Road, Tangra, Kolkata 700015
BACKDROP
The people of this country – especially the marginalised and the deprived – are under attack. The State is aggressively promoting mines, large dams and polluting industries at the cost of community […]

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Why climate change activists must support the people no matter what

Orissa - Brief Report from Anti-POSCO villages - story of the injured people

Jharkhand - Illegal detention of Human Rights Activists, Writer and Photographer

Stop Police Attacks On Peaceful Protesters In Orissa - Appeal By Concerned Citizens

Source : Countercurrents
New Delhi: We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the unprovoked firing and arson carried out by the Orissa state police against a dharna of farmers and fisher folk opposed to the proposed POSCO steel project in Jagatsingpur district.
As per latest reports, today over 100 people have been injured and many shops and houses in […]

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Potka, Jharkhand: Another Bloodbath is on the Way

Mumbai - slum hutments demolished

PUDR - Stop State Violence on People’s Movements in Orissa

Anti-POSCO movement - Appeal to join the resistance as police platoons surround villages

Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Forests

Forest Rights Act subverted in Sonebhadra district

Statement against Home Ministry’s Press Note to silence intellectuals

Lalgarh - PCAPA report to SHRC, December 2009

CDRO Opposes Draconian UAPA

A Statement by Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations
7th May 2010
The most recent alert (regarding use of section 39, UAPA) issued by the government in so called public interest has brought out in the open what had so far been implicit in its anti-Maoist policy. The purpose of the circular is to intimidate voices of protests […]

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Statements against continued attempts by the Government to suppress voices of resistance - Sanhati, Gladson Dungdung

Kolkata Convention on Indo-US Agricultural Knowledge Initiative

Organized by SANSKRITI PARISHAD
Date/Time : 8th May 2010, 3:00PM
Venue : University Institute Hall
Speakers : Abhee Dutta Mazumdar / Kalyan Rudra / Partho Sarothi Ray / Tushar Chakrabarty / Partha Sarathi Dasgupta / Leaders of various peasants’ organizations
Click here to read the announcement in Bengali
Friends,
You are probably aware that the Indo-US Agricultural Knowledge Initiative […]

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The death of jawans in Dantewada - Statement of intellectuals/activists urging the government to engage in dialogue

A Background Note to the beginning of new Civil Society initiative for resumption of talks between the Centre and the ULFA

Searching for Jake Sully in India’s heartland

Can There Be Any Hope?

Am I A Maoist?

By Gladson Dungdung (Guest Contributor, Sanhati)

I appeared in the public life through my human rights works, writings and speeches. However, I reached to the larger audience when I had got a chance to appear in CNN-IBN and NDTV-24×7 debates on the issue of Naxalism last year. After these debates, I got immense positive and negative responses from across the country. I was upset for sometime precisely because of the most negative responses I got from those youth, who are running behind the market forces unknowingly. They ruthlessly questioned me about whether I get money from Pakistan, Nepal or China for speaking against the Indian State. I responded to a few of them with detailed explanations, but many believe P Chidambaram’s theory of this side or that side; therefore they are not ready to accept my rational arguments.

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Protest harassment and persecution of NFFPFW members in North Bengal by Police

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