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|Press Release|Protest and Vigil to Support People’s Struggle Against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plan

04.09.2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

PUCL-Bangalore, with many other organisations, came together in front of Town Hall today to protest against the vicious police crackdown on the protesters opposed to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, in Tamil Nadu. So far 185 protesters, and 11 prominent activists from the region have been arrested, following the CM’s announcement to allow operation at ...

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Press Release: FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER: LESSONS FOR INDIA

04.09.2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

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 ...

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|Preliminary Report| Death of Kitta Koraga, Safai Karamchari in Kinnigoli

11.27.2011 · Posted in Human Rights, Minorities, Report

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, ...

|PRESS STATEMENT| Response to Kolar Deputy Commissioner

10.31.2011 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases, Urban Poverty

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 ...

Indian State and the Art of Fabricating False Cases Convention on July 30, 2011 in Bangalore.

07.27.2011 · Posted in Uncategorized

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 ...

[Press Statement] Visit by PUCL-Bangalore to POSCO Affected Areas in Odisha 22-24 July, 2011

07.27.2011 · Posted in Uncategorized

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 ...

Defending Rights, Expanding Freedoms! Why Citizens Should Know Constitutional and Criminal Law

06.17.2011 · Posted in Meetings and Events

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 ...