41 Years of Confronting Corporate Crime
Commemorating the 41st Anniversary of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster in Bhopal
Along with ICJB, the five Bhopal-based survivors’ organizations seek your support to commemorate the 41st Anniversary of the deadliest corporate massacre in history, as they continue to confront state apathy and the corporate crimes of Dow Chemical.
Please reach out to us if you are interested in actions across the world to support our cause. You could participate in already planned actions or help organize new actions near you.. This page serves to provide all resources, links and relevant information needed to mark this anniversary with a strong message to the powers that be – that corporate crime is the biggest threat to human survival and our environment. The fight for justice in Bhopal is part of our common fight.
Important Links
41st Anniversary Actions
Press Releases, Statements and Updates
Events in India
Bhopal
| Date & Time | Location | Event Details |
| December 2, 2025 12pm-2pm |
Neelam Park, Lilly Talkies | Effigy burning of Dow Chemical |
| December 2, 2025 6pm-8pm |
Sindhi Colony (Berasia Road) to JP Nagar-Gas Memorial Statue | Mashal Rally and Commemoration Ceremony at the end of Rally |
| December 3, 2025 11am-3pm |
Starts at Bharat Talkies underbridge. 3km walk to UC factory | 41st Anniversary Rally, Effigy Burning and Viewing of MP High Court proceedings on the issue of compensation listed for 3 December |
Documents and Links
You can print the following to distribute at your event:
Amnesty Toolkit
- Amnesty International’s report on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
- Student Action Guide
- Teach-in Presentation
- Quick Fact Sheet
Other links:
Films and Documentaries
The films and documentaries below are available for screening. Producers of the films have provided us permission only for non-commercial use (please don’t share these links with unknown third-parties).
- Where Do The Children Play
- Bhopali
- Hush Baby
- Secrets and Lies
- Twenty Years Without Justice
- A Healing Garden Grows in Bhopal
- Yes Men Fix The World
- Litigating Disaster (available for educational streaming only on Docuseek)
- Bhopal: Search for Justice
Media coverage/documentaries:
Graphics, Photos etc.
Please use these for your event materials
- Poster Exhibition (download posters for print/screen)
- Digital Photo Slideshow
- Campaign Logo (circular)
Poster information sources: the link to references and citations will be available here soon!
Poster Exhibition
Why would we want to tell the full story of Bhopal? Because we have never been able to tell the full story. Because the media has never and will never tell the full story. Because we believe that once you know the full story, it will make you see your familiar world in a different way – raw and minus the veneer of polite society. The real world where corporate crime is ubiquitous and granted impunity by default. Quite possibly it will make you see us, the Bhopal survivors, in a different way too. Not as “other” to be pitied or ignored but as fellow victims of corporate crime, fellow warriors in the battle for people over profits.
This poster exhibition is one way we thought of telling the full story. So that we do not overwhelm you with information yet not leave out the essential details. Please give us your feedback and hopefully volunteer to improve the telling of our story. Our common story.
1. Facts and Figures
A Corporate Crime against half a million people was exposed through the spectacular event of December 2-3, 1984. Yet till today there are no credible information on the destruction of lives and health or to the soil and groundwater caused by the Union Carbide Corporation, USA in Bhopal
2. How Did the Disaster Occur?
The 1796, Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, defines “Taradiddling” as “a fib, or falsity” – perhaps from “diddle” meaning to cheat. Corporations have been taradiddling at least a couple hundred years before that term was invented. One of Union Carbide’s big taradiddle was that the disaster “was caused by the deliberate introduction of water in to the MIC tank by a disgruntled worker”. The following posters will adequately equip you with the technical wherewithal to expose the vulgar tongue that blames the victims for its crime. In support of the workers of the Bhopal factory and indeed workers of the world, do spread this exposé.
3. Lessons of Bhopal
Governments and corporations across the planet may not have learnt anything from the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster, nor from the ongoing disaster today. But the resolute survivors of the disaster, and the many communities of survivors of similar crimes around the world, with whom we offer solidarity and support, definitely have.
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