Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. - Paulo Freire.
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Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
Suicide of Ritesh on Account of Urwa Police Torture
PUCL (Karnataka) Reports: On September 13, 2009 a local newspaper carried a small report about a 19-year old youth committing suicide allegedly due to ‘harassment by the police’. The next morning’s newspapers had further details of the incident. PUCL Mangalore decided to pursue this unusual case and ascertain the facts. ..more
Cases Taken Up By PUCL (Jharkhand)
Hazaribagh police killed Lalku Mahato at night at his house at Kole Block Halt. There was no pretention of fake encounter even. It was a cold blooded murder by police. PUCL Ranchi extensively investigated the case. ..more
NHRC Recommends Relief and Rehab of Displaced
The following important recommendations and suggestions emerged at the National Conference on Relief and Rehabilitation of Displaced Persons organized by the National Human Rights Commission. ..more
‘PRESS RELEASE’ On Impunity and arrest of Rajendra Sail
“The General Secretary of the Chhattisgarh PUCL, Dr. Binayak Sen, has been arrested without any tenable reason. Like all other activists working in our organization all over the country he was fighting against violation of human rights of ..more
PUCL Jharkhand Puts Human Rights Issues at ICJ
Subroto Bhattacharjee, the president of Jharkhand PUCL, placed the report emphasising the violation of Human Rights in Jharkhand, before the International Commission of Jurist at ASOKA Hotel, New Delhi on 27-28 February,2007. ..more
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Jharkhand Headlines
... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.