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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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Permanent Suspects

10.09.2015 · Posted in 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 ...

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Press Release – Custodial Death of Mubarak Pasha

09.04.2014 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases, Uncategorized

People’s Union for Civil Liberties strongly condemns the custodial death of Mubarak Pasha under mysterious circumstances in Central Prison in Bangalore, as reported in the media on 1 Sept 2014. The shameful incident reflects poorly on the entire police and security force of Bangalore – the appointed custodians for citizens’ safety with responsibility to ensure ...

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Press Release – Amendments to the Goonda’s Act

08.16.2014 · Posted in Press Releases

PUCL Karnataka is shocked and strongly opposes the recent amendment to the Draconian Goondas Act passed by the Karnataka Assembly, which impinges on civil liberties and undermines constitutionally mandated guarantees of fundamental rights and freedom of expression for all citizens. The State has egregiously grabbed wide and arbitrary powers, increasing enormously the scope of potential abuse, by ...

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Locking Out Workers – Fact Finding Report

06.23.2014 · Posted in Reports From Other Organizations!

A Citizens’ Fact-finding Report on the Lockout and Subsequent Events at Stump, Schuele, and Somappa Springs Private Limited, Hosur Road, Bangalore, 2014 Read / Download the full report here Stumpp, Schuele and Somappa Springs Private Limited (hereinafter SSSPL) is, arguably, the leading manufacturer of springs for cars, two-wheelers and commercial vehicles, for clients like Maruthi Udyog, Tata, ...

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Press Release | Assault on Sex Workers in Bangalore

03.30.2014 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases

On 23.03.2014, Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties filed a complaint with the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission, on behalf of sex workers who are being subjected to police violence in Majestic, Upparpete KG Road and adjoining areas. This complaint was in addition to the complaint filed by PUCL on February 06, 2014 on the same ...

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| Fact Finding Report |Governance By Denial – Forced Evictions and Demolition of Homes in Ejipura

Read the FULL REPORT HERE 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 ...

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