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 ...
The meeting of the State council of PUCL-Karnataka was held at the premises of Fatima Retreat, Mangalore, on 14-5-2011, from 10.00 am to 2.00pm. Mr P.B. D’Sa, President , PUCL-K, presided over the meeting. Dr V. Lakshminarayana, General secretary, welcomed the gathering. The deliberations was attended by 17 state council members hailing from Bangalore, Mysore, ...
Memorandum on Implementation of the Karnataka Prohibition of Beggary Act, 1975 ...
SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR THE REPEAL of AFSPA AND RELEASE OF IROM SHARMILA Time Sunday, May 22 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm Location TOWN HALL to Mahatma Gandhi Statue, M G ROAD , BANGALORE ...
PRESS RELEASE PUCL, Bangalore, strongly condemns the call by city’s new police commissioner JP Mirji to target and crackdown on Bangalore’s Hijra community authorising mass arrests for creating public nuisance and under the Karnataka beggary Act. Criminalising either poverty or sexuality of a community are against the fundamental rights and freedoms constitutionally guaranteed and are ...