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Dr.
Pushkar Raj
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People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
270 A, Patpargang, Mayur Vihar Phase I
110091
Telephone Nos.
011-22750014, 09810656100
Email: raajpushkar@gmail.com
rajpushkar@lokniti.org |
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Pushkar Raj is the National General Secretary of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a reputed Human Rights Organisation engaged in practical realization of human rights in the country. Earlier he worked with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) an international human rights organisation engaged in advocacy of police and jail reforms and right to information across the commonwealth countries.
Pushkar Raj has a doctorate in African Politics and Literature. He has taught political science in Delhi University for about five years.
For over a decade, Dr. Raj has actively been associated with the civil society groups that are engaged in participatory action centric social and political research and protection and advocacy of human rights in the country. He was part of an observer team of the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi to observe the elections in Jammu and Kashmir in Sep-Oct 2002. He has been part of various campaigns against the repressive laws like Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA), Sedition, anti-begging and Capital Punishment. He has been engaged in promoting police reforms in the country through research and advocacy. He has extensively lobbied for democratic and people friendly police laws in the various States of the country. He also edits PUCL’s monthly journal on human rights `PUCL Bulletin’.
| Dr. Raj has conducted several fact finding investigations on human rights violations on behalf of civil society groups including firing on farmers in Haryana, killings of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh and police high handedness in Delhi. He has written a number of articles on human rights and policing issues in national English and vernacular dailies. |
Dr. Raj has been associated with the Lokniti since August 2003 and has served as the State Coordinator of Delhi in the post poll surveys for Delhi in the National Election Study in 2004. He is recipient of Erasmus- Mundus Fellowship on Human Rights of European Union for the year 2008-9 where he worked on project `Civil Society and Human Rights in India.’ He was also awarded Endeavour Research Fellowship by the Australian government (2010-11) for undertaking a comparative study of land relations in Australia and India.
Research Interests:
Dr. Raj's main areas of interest include democracy, governance, status of minorities in multi-cultural societies and human rights. His main focus is on highlighting the state of human rights of the minorities, women, economically and socially marginalised in society through the method of survey research contributing inputs valuable for policy formation, institutional understanding and theory building. He also has deep interest in contemporary Indian and world literature.
Selected Publications:
Articles in Professional / Refereed journals
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Delhi Parliamentary Elections: Benefiting from Two-layered Incumbency, in `` Electoral Politics in Indian States, Lok Sabha Elections 2004 and Beyond ( edited Sandeep Shastri, K.C Suri and Yogendra Yadav, Oxford 2009). |
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Politics and Literature in Africa, Indian Journal of African Studies, Vol. X. Nos. Vol. 1 and 2, 1999. |
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Criminalising Poverty: Houseless and Anti-Begging Law in Delhi, PUCL Bulletin, New Delhi Jan 2005. |
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Globalsiation and Human Rights,PUCL Bulletin, July 2002. |
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Loktantra: Nepal banam Togo, Samayik Varta, May, 2005. |
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Communal Rage in Secular India: Rafiq Zakaria (Book Review), Gandhi Marg, June 2003, Vol. 26 No. I . |
Conferences, Reports and Occasional Papers
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Police and the Underprivileged in workshop entitled `` The Happiness Perception Index of Gurgaon Residents,’’ organised by Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, 23 July 11 . |
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Mabo High Court Judgement: Struggling to Give New Meaning to Existing Reality – Judicial Connivance in Colonial Project in Land Relations in Australia in International Symposium entitled, ReOrienting the World: Decolonial Horizons, University of South Australia, 22 March 2011. |
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Democratic Crisis of Adolescence: Rights in the Globalised India, paper presented in seminar, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 25 October 2010. |
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Issues Related to Human Rights Defenders and Suggested Measures, paper presented in a National workshop on Human Rights’ Defenders by the National Human Rights Commission (India), 12 October 2009. |
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Civil Society, Human Rights and Good Governance, paper presented at University of Tromso, Norway, May 2009. |
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Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act and Human Security vs. National Security , paper presented at the National conference entitled ` Towards Ending Armed Violence, (organisation) Sustainable Peace & Reconciliation ’Assessing the Call to Repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958, 8 September 2010, New Delhi |
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Shattered Lives: The Cost of Impact of Unregulated Arms Trade, Transfers and Proliferation on People and Society in India, paper presented at Delhi Disarmament Events and United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Experts Conference 14 to 17 February 2010, New Delhi. |
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Literature in African Identity, politics and total Liberation, paper presented at national seminar on African Resilience: Contextualizing Society, Polity and Economy, organized by University of Delhi, 30-31 March 2007. |
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With K. G. Kannabiran, Impunity as an Obstacle to the Human Rights Culture, paper presented at South Asia Hearing of International Court of Jurists, New Delhi, Feb. 2007. |
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Jammu and Kashmir in Indian Federation, paper presented at International Conference on Indian Federalism at Work, Srinagar, jointly organized by ISS, University of Jammu and University of Kashmir, 25-27 August 2006. |
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Human Rights in Times of Demolition: Women and Children as Victims of Beautification in Mumbai,paper presented at National Seminar on a World Wide Perspective of Human Rights: Issues of Women and Child, 24-25 October 2005 at MES College of Art and Commerce Goa. |
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With Sanjay Kumar, Democracy’s Marginal Citizens: Houseless in Delhi, Paper presented at a National Seminar organized by CSDS, New Delhi, and 18-19 Nov. 2004. |
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Research Advocacy and Human rights, Paper presented, at the India Habitat Centre work shop on Civil Society Partners and Human Rights organized by the One World South Asia, New Delhi, 3-4 march 2004. |
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The Mindset of the Middle Class: A Case Study of Delhi, Paper presented at the Institute of Social Sciences, (ISS), New Delhi, March 2004. |
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