On July 20th Deccan Herald ran a disturbing news item. Manual scavengers from the Bhangi caste in Savanur had covered themselves with human excreta to protest their impending eviction and a denial of water by the Town Municipal Corporation (TMC). There were other similar reports in the Kannada press (both print and electronic). The back-story ...
Police terror in the Tarfail slum, Gulbarga Uncovering institutionalized caste prejudices and biases A report by PUCL Karnataka View/Download the complete report HERE [.PDF format] Background Note and Need for the Report On 8th April 2010, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Karnataka (PUCL-K) received a representation from Shri. Allama Prabhu Nimbaragi, Convenor of the Zilla ...
Friday, 30 April 2010 Press statement Condemning the state government and BJP’s interference in the independent functioning of State Human Rights Commission and Backward Classes Commission The large number of incidences of abuse & exploitation of children, women, dalits, disabled, minorities, farmers & other vulnerable sections are increasing. The dislocation & displacement of these sections ...
In response to the PUCL petition on the hazardous working conditions of Pourakarmikas and Sanitary workers: The High Court of Karnataka has constituted a 10 member committee headed by the Member Secretary of the Legal Services Authority. According to the court’s order, the committee will submit it’s report within four weeks of receipt of the ...
PUCL and host of other organizations and individuals have endorsed a statement that makes an argument against the UID in it's current form ...
PUCL Dakshin Kannada A Fact Finding Report on the proposed eviction of Dalits and others from Tannirbhavi, Mangalore, in Karnataka. “Dalits At Tannirbavi Being Evicted” was the headline of a news item that appeared in ‘The Hindu’ of 14th June, 2009. We were shocked to read that the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) was ...