|Photos| Binayak Sen Candle Light Vigil
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Anti-Beggary Laws – Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the National Consultation on Anti-Beggary Laws: Legal and Policy Perspectives. Consultation organized by Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) & Gandhian Studies Centre, NLSIU, Bangalore. Proceedings of the Consultation here ...
K.G. Kannabiran is no more
Dear Friends I have to inform you with a heavy heart that K.G. Kannabiran, former National President of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), leading advocate of civil liberties and human rights and prolific writer breathed his last this evening at his home in Secundarabad. He had not been keeping well for the last few ...
Photos ~ Free Binayak Sen Protest
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|Press Note| Protest Meeting in Bangalore – Binayak Sen Conviction
[Press Note in Kannada] Bangalore, December 29th At a protest organised at the Town Hall in Bangalore, Human Rights organisations, NGOs and the civil society came out in strong opposition to a verdict by a Raipur court that convicted Dr Binayak Sen on charges of sedition and pronounced a life sentence. The protest, held under ...
|Press Release| Binayak Sen Conviction
Statement in Kannada Delhi/ Raipur, 24th December, 2010 The People’s Union for Civil Liberties is deeply disappointed at the miscarriage of justice reflected in the judgement of Raipur Additional District and Sessions Judge B. P. Verma sentencing our National Vice President Dr. Binayak Sen to life imprisonment under charges of sedition 124 (A) of the ...
|Statement| Encounter Killings in Bangalore
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 PUCL, Bangalore strongly condemns the two encounter killings by police in Bangalore, reported on the front page of The Hindu on 19th December 2010. Guarantees of individual fundamental rights form the backbone in functioning of any democracy and the role of police is to ensure preservation of the same. We, as ...
Human Rights, Democracy and Media : Challenges in Contemporary Times
Human Rights’ Day 2010 was observed by the PUCL, Bangalore chapter with a discussion meeting on “Human Rights, Democracy and Media : Challenges in Contemporary Times”. We had three principal speakers to present the primary topic followed by a discussion session. Isaac Arul Selva, Editor, Slum Jagatthu, spoke of the great caste bias in the ...
Discussion Meeting| Human Rights, Democracy and Media
INVITATION !!OPEN DOOR EVENT!! PUCL-Bangalore invites you to a Discussion Meeting Human Rights, Democracy and Media Challenges in Contemporary Times 11 December 2010 @ 4:00 PM Xavier Hall, Post-Graduate Campus, St. Joseph’s College Near Double Road ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presiding Professor Hassan Mansur Founder member – PUCL- Karnataka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moderator Father Ambrose Pinto Principal, St Joseph’s College ...
|Statement| Communal Mob Attack in Bangalore
People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Bangalore, strongly condemns the brutal and organised mob attack on Brother Phillip Noronha by members of Jaya Karnataka Vedike, in presence and with support of inspector BN Gopalakrishna, inspector of Whitefield Police Station. Brother Phillip was kidnapped in a van, beaten up and roughed up by these vigilante elements and ...