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Thread and Tension | An account of the historic uprising of garment workers

12.24.2018 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases, Urban Poverty

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 ...

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| Preliminary Report | Impact of Demonetization on Casual Labour at the Chowktis of Jaipur

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 ...

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Press Release | Death of Two Manual Scavengers in Bengaluru

11.01.2016 · Posted in Human Rights, Minorities, Press Releases

*** 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 ...

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Press Release | Kaveri Water Issue

09.16.2016 · Posted in Minorities, Uncategorized

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 ...

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Fact Finding Report | Garment Workers Protest in Bangalore in April 2016

08.31.2016 · Posted in Uncategorized

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 ...

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Press Statement – PUCL Bangalore | Violence in Kashmir

08.11.2016 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases, Uncategorized

Dated: August 5, 2016 Press Statement of People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Bangalore Chapter Violence in Kashmir Since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani on 8 July 8 2016 by Indian armed forces, the Kashmir Valley has entered another and heightened phase of a war-like conflict. The people of Kashmir who wanted ...

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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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Schooled into Hindu Rashtra – Interim Fact Finding Report

04.01.2016 · Posted in Human Rights, Report

Click HERE to read the full report 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 ...

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|Human Rights Day| Challenges Facing the Left: Remembering Praful Bidwai

12.19.2015 · Posted in Human Rights

Praful’s death on 23 June 2015 was met with widely felt shock in South Asia and elsewhere as his courageous journalism, environmental activism and anti-nuclear as well as anti-communal activism and had won him vast numbers of admirers across the subcontinent and the globe. His latest book, The Phoenix Moment, investigates whether the Left’s core ...

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