PRESS RELEASE PUCL, Bangalore, strongly condemns the call by city’s new police commissioner JP Mirji to target and crackdown on Bangalore’s Hijra community authorising mass arrests for creating public nuisance and under the Karnataka beggary Act. Criminalising either poverty or sexuality of a community are against the fundamental rights and freedoms constitutionally guaranteed and are ...
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Justice Saldhana at the request of PUCL Karnataka and Transparency International led a People’s Trinunal into attacks on churches in Karnataka. The full report has now been released and can be read here. ...
The Budihalli Fact Finding Report ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
People’s Union For Civil Liberties – Bangalore ~~~~ INVITATION ~~~~~ Release of the Preliminary Report on the Savanur Protests by Justice Rajinder Sachar On the 20th of July 2010 Bhangi families engaged in manual scavenging poured human excrement on themselves as a mark of protest. They were protesting against the disconnection of their water supply ...
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 ...