On March 11, exactly one year ago, a huge nuclear disaster in human history occurred at Fukushima , such that three nuclear reactors in the Fukushima Daichii plant experienced a nuclear core meltdown. The associated series of hydrogen explosions in the plant released more than twenty times the radioactive radiation of the Hiroshima bomb, causing ...
Statement on proposed changes to text books. Click here for the full statement in Kannada ...
Download the Report HERE In yet another tragic incident of death by manual scavenging in Karnataka, Shri Kitta Koraga, 45 years old, succumbed to asphyxiation while engaged in cleaning a soak pit in Kinnigoli town, Dakshina Kannada district on 6.11.11. On 7.11.11, PUCL, Bangalore, was contacted by Shri Balraj, member of Koragara Abhivrudda Sanghada Okkoota, ...
We are responding to the statement of the Deputy Commissioner, Kolar that was reported in the newspapers dated 29th October, 2011 alleging PUCL’s role in the death of 3 persons performing the work of manual scavenging in KGF on 24th October, 2011. (Reference 1, 2) Since the statement makes serious allegations about the functioning of ...
Two spectres are haunting the civil society in India – the spectres of communalism and globalisation.As a part this invasion on people, minorities are attacked as it happened in Gujarat or Kandhamal and many other places in the recent past. Multinationals, the World Bank, ADB, IMF and other international organisations decide on the policies of ...
A five member team of PUCL Bangalore visited the POSCO project villages of Govindpur, Dhinkia and Patana in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha between July 22-24, 2011on a solidarity visit with people’s struggle against the POSCO project and to probe large-scale forced acquisition of lands by the State for the proposed POSCO steel plant in the ...
My experience from Know your constitution Workshop – Why every citizen needs to know the Indian constitution! Facilitator: Dr Suresh V, National Secretary, People’s Union for Civil Liberties Sunday June 19 2011 – Indian Social Institute Bangalore ...
A Discussion Meeting on the Story of POSCO Fiasco Tales of Betrayal, treachery and subversion: Lessons for citizens from the controversy over the biggest steel plant in India Sunday, June 19 · 5:00pm – 8:00pm Venue: ISI Benson Town, Bangalore By Dr. V. Suresh, one of the majority MoEF committee members on the POSCO project ...
Defending Rights, Expanding Freedoms! Why Citizens Should Know Constitutional and Criminal Law A Workshop by V Suresh, Lawyer, Activist, PUCL National Secretary Sunday, June 19 · 9:00am – 4:30pm Venue: ISI Benson Town, Bangalore This one day workshop is being offered by PUCL to introduce citizens to the laws. The approach is to learn the ...
The Solidarity March for the repeal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act and release of Irom Sharmila organized by PUCL and other human rights and civil liberties groups concluded peacfully on May 22, This was one of first events organized in response to PUCL’s nationwide call for campaign from May 22 to August 18 demanding ...