Two spectres are haunting the civil society in India – the spectres of communalism and globalisation.As a part this invasion on people, minorities are attacked as it happened in Gujarat or Kandhamal and many other places in the recent past. Multinationals, the World Bank, ADB, IMF and other international organisations decide on the policies of ...
A five member team of PUCL Bangalore visited the POSCO project villages of Govindpur, Dhinkia and Patana in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha between July 22-24, 2011on a solidarity visit with people’s struggle against the POSCO project and to probe large-scale forced acquisition of lands by the State for the proposed POSCO steel plant in the ...
8th February 2011 PRESS RELEASE B.K. Somashekar Report We are greatly disappointed with the final report released by Justice B.K.Somashekar commission Enquiring the attack on churches. While the interim report clearly held responsible some hindu fundamentalist organisations, Police, state administration and the Govt. The final report appears to have absolved the govt and the Police. ...
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Statement in Kannada Delhi/ Raipur, 24th December, 2010 The People’s Union for Civil Liberties is deeply disappointed at the miscarriage of justice reflected in the judgement of Raipur Additional District and Sessions Judge B. P. Verma sentencing our National Vice President Dr. Binayak Sen to life imprisonment under charges of sedition 124 (A) of the ...
INVITATION !!OPEN DOOR EVENT!! PUCL-Bangalore invites you to a Discussion Meeting Human Rights, Democracy and Media Challenges in Contemporary Times 11 December 2010 @ 4:00 PM Xavier Hall, Post-Graduate Campus, St. Joseph’s College Near Double Road ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presiding Professor Hassan Mansur Founder member – PUCL- Karnataka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moderator Father Ambrose Pinto Principal, St Joseph’s College ...