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*Preliminary* Fact Finding Report – Bangalore Garment Workers’ Protest Demonstration:

05.31.2016 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases, Report, Urban Poverty

Read the COMPLETE PRELIMINARY REPORT HERE   On the two days of April 18th and 19th, 2016, workers of the garment industry, predominantly women, took to the streets in a sudden unplanned demonstration to protest the new ordinance on the Employment Provident Fund by the Central Government. The angst among garment workers was triggered by a ...

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Press Release | Assault on Sex Workers in Bangalore

03.30.2014 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases

On 23.03.2014, Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties filed a complaint with the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission, on behalf of sex workers who are being subjected to police violence in Majestic, Upparpete KG Road and adjoining areas. This complaint was in addition to the complaint filed by PUCL on February 06, 2014 on the same ...

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| Fact Finding Report |Governance By Denial – Forced Evictions and Demolition of Homes in Ejipura

Read the FULL REPORT HERE From 18–21 January 2013, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), responsible for providing infrastructure and services in the Greater Bangalore Metropolitan area, bulldozed 1,512 homes in the economically weaker section (EWS) settlement in Ejipura/ Koramangala. The 5,000 people rendered homeless by the four-day demolition drive included around 1,200 women and ...

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Press Release – PUCL Dakshin Kannada

04.06.2011 · Posted in Press Releases

A six-member PUCL delegation led by its state president P.B.D’Sa, met the Inspector General of Police (WR) Alok Mohan and the Mangalore Commissioner of Police Seemanth Kumar Singh on April 2, 2011 and held discussions on a number of important topics such as human rights, communalism etc. Copies of several PUCL reports and publications were ...

|Statement| Communal Mob Attack in Bangalore

People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Bangalore, strongly condemns the brutal and organised mob attack on Brother Phillip Noronha by members of Jaya Karnataka Vedike, in presence and with support of inspector BN Gopalakrishna, inspector of Whitefield Police Station. Brother Phillip was kidnapped in a van, beaten up and roughed up by these vigilante elements and ...

Polic Terror: Trafail Slum, Gulbarga

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 ...

Communal clashes rock Karnataka town [September 2002]

09.28.2002 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights

[Source] [From September 2002] New Delhi: South Indian city of KR Nagar witnessed a rise in communal temperature on September 13 evening following a clash between two youths taking on a communal colour. The tension led to communal clashes in the Karnataka state town the following morning and police resorted to lobbing of teargas shells ...

|Report| Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla [2002]

01.01.2002 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights, Minorities, Report

PUCL Bulletin, January 2002 Karnataka: Mangalore PUCL Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla By P.B. D’Sa Thursday 23rd 2001 morning about 100 men in uniform stormed the Katipalla town with Lathis, Tear Gas cells and guns to the utter shock of the unsuspecting citizens of this locality .The Police personnel beat up every ...