Author: Adrian
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UN Social Justice Day 2014 – ICJB’s Letter to the United Nations
To, The Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon United Nations Organization 1st Ave. and 46th street New York, NY 10017 USA February 20, 2014 Sub: 30th Anniversary Appeal from Survivors of the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal, India. Dear Sir, On behalf of five organizations of the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal,…
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Dow Sues ICJB Activists in India
In early February, Dow Chemical filed its fourth lawsuit against activists in India seeking justice for victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster. Read more in Digital Journal’s article, where Reena Shadaan of ICJB, North America, is interviewed: “Imagine, the company that gave us Napalm and Agent Orange is suing activists who have non-violently struggled for a…
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ANI News: “Bhopal Gas tragedy victims still await justice even after three decades”
Original Link: http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail2/story143484/bhopal-gas-tragedy-victims-still-await-justice-even-after-three-decades.html Bhopal Gas tragedy victims still await justice even after three decades Bhopal, Dec.2 (ANI): Leaders of five organisations representing survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have called on the United States Government to acknowledge and express regret for financing, through its EXIM Bank, the construction of the hazardously designed Union Carbide plant…
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Wikileaks: “Bhopal Gas Tragedy NGOs reveal Wikileaks’ cables on Dow Chemicals; Allege Indian Govt. kowtowed to US pressure”
Original link: http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/bhopal/626/bhopal-gas-tragedy-ngos-reveal-wikileaks-cables-on-dow-chemicals/18740/ Bhopal Gas Tragedy NGOs reveal Wikileaks’ cables on Dow Chemicals; Allege Indian Govt. kowtowed to US pressure Submitted by admin4 on 17 April 2013 – 11:01pm By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net Bhopal: Representatives of five NGOs (non-government organisations) working for the welfare of the survivors of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial catastrophe,…
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Bhopal link mars Olympic Games
PAUL LEWIS With just over seven months to go to the London Olympics, the world’s greatest sporting carnival faces its first big political challenge – the moves to have Dow Chemicals removed as a sponsor because of 15,000 deaths. Dow is apparently paying about 1.5 million ($3.1m) to produce a giant wrap that will envelop…
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Rail Roko – Instructions for participants (Hindi)
डाव केमिकल और युनियन कार्बाइड से गैस पीडितो के सही मुआवजा लेने के लिए भोपाल गैस पीड़ित रोकेगे रेल. सात कदम उठाए : ३ दिसंबर को रेल रोको; जानिए कैसे
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What is the value of an Indian life?
Do you know how much the US corporation had to pay to its victims in Bhopal? Can you guess? First look at what was paid in other disasters: * In the Mangalore air disaster, compensation extended to an offer of employment for one family member No one will forget the horror of September 11,…
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Fair and adequate compensation
According to figures published by the Indian government’s apex medical research organization, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), at least 20,000 people had died by 2009 from injuries caused by the gas leak. ICMR’s research shows also that between 1984 and 1989 there were 3,500 spontaneous abortions as a result of gas exposure. These…
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Rail Roko (Stop the trains) December 3, 2011
Enquiries and updates: justiceinbhopal@yahoo.co.in We are stopping trains to: 1. Get adequate compensation from Union Carbide Corporation and The Dow Chemical Company. 2. What we have got is too little and it has not had any deterrent impact on the corporation. 3. This is because the government sold us out in 1989 and let the corporation walk away. 4. Last…
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Dow Tarnishes The Image Of The Olympics
29-October-2011 Make your voice count: Endorse the petition addressed to Chair of London 2012 Organizing Committee. 24 October 2011 Amnesty International writes to Chairman of LOCOG (Lord Sebestain Coe) and express serious concern on Dow Chemical as a sponsor to the Olympic Games. Click here to read the Amnesty International letter to LOCOG…
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MP High Court directs disposal of Union Carbide toxic waste at a DRDO secret facility in Nagpur
Act fast in disposal of toxic waste – Directs MP High Court 12.07.2011 | 21:12 http://www.lawetalnews.com/NewsDetail.asp?newsid=4316 Jabalpur Supriya Amber The Madhya Pradesh High Court Tuesday directed the state government to initiate the process of disposal of 350 metric tons toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide factory here in Bhopal. The division bench comprising of Justice…
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100 Bhopali Children demand medical care, rehabiliation and poison free environment
27 June 2011 Press Statement One hundred Bhopali children affected by Union Carbide’s poisons demonstrated in front of the Prime Minister’s office today, demanding medical care, rehabilitation and poison-free environment. Wearing signs with words like Justice and Izzat (dignity), members of the Bhopal-based Children Against Dow-Carbide held a banner with their demands in front of the North…
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Press Release: Black Day for Justice: Bhopal Survivors on Indian Supreme Court’s Rejection of the Curative Petition Press Statement
May 11, 2011 “Today will go down as another black day for justice,” Bhopal survivors’ organisations said in reaction to the Supreme Court’s order rejecting the curative petition filed by the CBI. “Further to the dismissal of the revision petition filed by three Bhopal organisations against Justice Ahmadi’s controversial 1996 order, the Supreme Court today…