Closing the Gates to Education: Violations of Rights of Muslim women students
Filed under: Human Rights, Report
Link to the full report:
Revised and updated edition released on: February 4, 2023
Executive Summary – English
Executive Summary – Kannada
Link to the edition of the report released on January 9, 2023:
Sugarcane Harvesting and Bonded Labour – A Report from Belagavi
Filed under: Human Rights, Report
From Communal Policing to Hate Crimes – The Attack on Ambedkar’s Dream of Fraternity
Filed under: Communal Violence, Report
A Report on Dakshina Kannada (January – September 2021)
Report by: PUCL-K, AILAJ, AIPF and Gauri Lankesh News
Production Torture – Working conditions faced by garment workers
Filed under: Human Rights, Report
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 to articulate their daily experiences of the Government Factory.
In response to the widespread complaints about abusive conditions faced by women workers in the garment industry in Bangalore, a number of human rights organizations and activists, came together to institute a joint fact-finding inquiry to go into such abuses and their deleterious impact on the workers, and suggest measures for redress of complaints by state, brand buyer agencies, and other bodies.
As part of this study, 27 interviews and 8 focus group discussions with women garment workers and men garment workers — each of which discussions comprised not less than 20-25 workers — were undertaken. The conversations during the interviews and focus group discussions revealed various forms of violations and harassments that the garment workers are subjected to. Almost all conversations were unanimous in pointing to the impossible targets set for the workers per day as the primary source of most forms of harassment. they faced.
Manual Scavenging in Karnataka – A PUCL-K Study
Filed under: Human Rights, Report, Urban Poverty
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.
| Preliminary Report | Impact of Demonetization on Casual Labour at the Chowktis of Jaipur
Filed under: Human Rights, Report, Reports From Other Organizations!, Uncategorized, Urban Poverty
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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 decided to undertake a quick assessment survey of the impact of the demonetization on the casual labour in an urban setting covering daily wage earners who assemble at various Chowktis (labour markets where wage-work seekers assemble in the morning) in the city of Jaipur.
The broad purpose of the rapid survey was to understand (a) the impact of demonetization on work, wages, incomes, access to food, relations, (b) banking practices and (c) awareness about demonetization scheme and of black money among casual labourers who reach local labour markers to seek wage labour work.
*Preliminary* Fact Finding Report – Bangalore Garment Workers’ Protest Demonstration:
Filed under: Human Rights, Press Releases, Report, Urban Poverty
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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 newspaper article in Vijaya Karnataka – a Kannada daily – on April 16th, 2016. The resulting demonstration was a landmark event, as it led the Central Government to withdraw the ordinance, thus benefiting lakhs of salaried workers across the country.
On May 1st, 2016, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Mr. Siddaramaiah, congratulated the garment workers for creating “a successful workers’ movement”, which was “historic” and was able to cause the Central government to roll back the “ill-conceived amendments to the EPF Scheme” .
While this protest has been lauded across the country as a victory for workers’ rights, specifically for the distinctive role played by women workers, the response of the state law enforcement machinery has been of utmost repression and violence, with an attempt to systematically create an atmosphere of abject fear, by targeting workers due to their vulnerable class character. The State Government and its machinery, which on the one hand praised the struggle and on the other lathi-charged them, needs to recognize that the garment factory workers resorted to the demonstration as the Central Government’s move to restrict access to their EPF funds was the last straw on their already burdened backs.
This report is an inquiry into the human rights violations by the police against citizens, including workers of the garment industry’s surrounding factories in Bangalore as well as bystanders, during the spontaneous demonstrations which took place on April 18th and 19th, 2016.
This preliminary report about the April 2016 events and the resulting police brutality has been prepared in order for SHRC, State Government, and Police Complaint Authority to take cognizance of and initiate immediate action against the serious violations of human rights that took place and still continue. This report has been put together with names of workers not being mentioned, as the workers are scared of being targeted by their factory managements and the police. They have agreed to speak to the fact-finding team on the condition of anonymity.
This fact-finding team comprises members of People’s Union of Civil Liberties – Karnataka (PUCL-K), Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression-Karnataka (WSS), and other independent researchers.
Read the COMPLETE PRELIMINARY REPORT HERE
Schooled into Hindu Rashtra – Interim Fact Finding Report
Filed under: Human Rights, Report
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For the last couple of years, newspaper reports have appeared about a large
number of children from the North-Eastern states of Meghalaya and
Manipur being transported to the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil
Nadu and Karnataka. It is revealed that this migration of children is the
initiative of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its associates. This
operation is carried out at the behest of RSS by a number of individuals and
organisations that contact parents belonging to tribal and backward caste
communities in the North-East states who are eager to give their children a
good education. Once the children are brought here, they are often enrolled
in schools and hostels run by individuals and organisations having
allegiance to RSS. With a view to finding out more about the work that RSS
is doing with these children from the North-East, or in other words, the
schools that they run, the kind of education they impart and the impact that
this educational initiative continues to have on these North-Eastern children
in Karnataka, two organisations in Karnataka, PUCL and KKSV decided to
conduct a fact-finding investigation.
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Permanent Suspects
Filed under: Human Rights, Report, Uncategorized
A fact finding report into the arrest of Muslim Youth in Bangalore.
Published in 2013.
Full report available for download @ : http://puclkarnataka.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Terrorism-and-Muslim-Youth.pdf
| Fact Finding Report |Governance By Denial – Forced Evictions and Demolition of Homes in Ejipura
Filed under: Human Rights, Meetings and Events, Report, Urban Poverty
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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 2,000 children.
Given the extensive damage rendered by the forced eviction and reports of violations of human rights of the residents of Ejipura/ Koramangala, Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL – Karnataka) and Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN – Delhi) undertook a fact-fi nding mission (21–22 February 2013) to investigate the incidence of forced eviction in Ejipura/Koramangala and its aftermath.
This report presents the main findings of the fact-finding mission and makes specific recommendations to the Government of Karnataka.
