Report on the Exodus of Madigas from Budihalli
The Budihalli Fact Finding Report ...
Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
PUCL Karnataka Statement of Somashekar Commission
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. ...
Fact Finding Report on Shivani
Shivani Fact Finding Report available here ...
PUCL-IIMB ~ Annual Inter Collegiate Debate
PUCL – IIMB Debating Society Annual Inter-Collegiate Debate On Civil Liberties and Human Rights Feb 5th 2011, 11am-2pm, IIM Bangalore Debates and discussions are tools for people’s participation on wide range of issues in democratic societies and play an important part in the search for solutions to longstanding problems. Many of the recent social, economic ...
|Press Note| Response to Somashekhar Commission Findings
People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Bangalore, wish to express their deepest disappointment with the principal findings of the Somashekhar Commission Report released recently, which absolves the state government and all the major right wing hindutva political parties and groups of all responsibility in the communal attacks on churches in Karnataka in 2008. The report ...
Protest in Bangalore – Calling for the Release of Dr Binayak Sen
**PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY*** What? A silent protest and vigil!!! Calling for the release of Dr Binayak Sen Part of Nationwide Protest! When and Where? 5PM to 7PM Martyr’s Day, JANUARY 30th, 2010 Town Hall, Bangalore Background? The protest in Bangalore is a part of a Nationwide protest calling for the release of Dr.Binayak Sen. Protests ...
|Photos| Binayak Sen Candle Light Vigil
[wppa type=”slide” album=”2″][/wppa] [Images courtesy Ayushranka.in] ...
Anti-Beggary Laws – Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the National Consultation on Anti-Beggary Laws: Legal and Policy Perspectives. Consultation organized by Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) & Gandhian Studies Centre, NLSIU, Bangalore. Proceedings of the Consultation here ...
K.G. Kannabiran is no more
Dear Friends I have to inform you with a heavy heart that K.G. Kannabiran, former National President of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), leading advocate of civil liberties and human rights and prolific writer breathed his last this evening at his home in Secundarabad. He had not been keeping well for the last few ...
|Press Note| Protest Meeting in Bangalore – Binayak Sen Conviction
[Press Note in Kannada] Bangalore, December 29th At a protest organised at the Town Hall in Bangalore, Human Rights organisations, NGOs and the civil society came out in strong opposition to a verdict by a Raipur court that convicted Dr Binayak Sen on charges of sedition and pronounced a life sentence. The protest, held under ...