PRESS RELEASE | BANGALORE, 12 April , 2020 PUCL feedback report on the status of implementation of the food security shemes and old age pension scheme in Karnataka shows several gaps Government needs to address these gaps immediately , else issue of malnutrition will become worse This to bring to the kind notice media with ...
Read the full fact-finding report here On 28th October 2019 and 29th October 2019 at the forest areas at Attapaddi, Palakkad district, the Thunderbolt which is the special wing of the Kerala police “encountered” four persons who they have termed as belonging to the Communist Party of India (Maoists). As per the police, 3 persons ...
Production Torture is a study of the working conditions, including workplace harassment, faced by women garment workers in Bangalore and other districts. This study is published by: PUCL – K NLSIU Vimochana The Alternative Law Forum Concern – IISc Manthan Law Garments Mahila Karmikara Munnade “Production Torture“A telling phrase from English innovated by garment workers ...
What are the historical factors at work in India society in denying the right to dignity for the sanitation worker and allowing deaths from manual scavenging to continue? This study identifies four such factors and discusses them in detail. ...
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Thread and Tension An account of the historic uprising of garment workers A fact-finding report by People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Bangalore and Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression In April, 2016, lakhs of workers of the garment industry took to Bangalore streets to protest against a new Central Government Ordinance on the ...
Read the full report HERE Preliminary Report of the Survey ~ Conducted by PUCL Interns & supervised by PUCL and BGVS members Though there are several general statements available suggesting that the maximum impact of the note withdrawal scheme has been this segment of daily wage earners, however no systematic assessment is available. Accordingly we ...
*** Download the Full Statement Here *** PUCL-BENGALURU CONDEMNS THE DEATH OF TWO MANUAL SCAVENGERS IN SHANTINIVAS APARTMENT NEAR YESHWANTPUR RAILWAY STATION, BENGALURU On October 18, 2016, two manual scavengers named Venkataramana, 24, a dalit, and Manjunath, 32, died in the septic tank of Shantinivas Apartment, near Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru, due to asphyxiation. The owners/residents of ...
The Kannada Press Release is Available Here The Supreme Court has given its’s verdict over the sharing of Kaveri between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and directed the Karnataka government to release forthwith 15000 cusecs of water every day for ten days to Tamil Nadu. This verdict has created tremendous tension in Karnataka and resulted in continuous ...
Read the full report [HERE] A report by PUCL Banglaore Chapter and WSS This report is an inquiry into the garment workers’ protest in Bangalore, the developments that led up to the tumultuous events of April 18-19 as well as its aftermath, the underlying issues that came to the fore, as well as the wider ...