Press Conference
March 20, 2023
At a press conference today organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal presented their response to the decision of the Supreme Court that was made available online on March 15, 2023. Earlier, the organizations had condemned the decision on the day the Curative Petition for additional compensation for the disaster was dismissed by the Bench on March 14.
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Press Statement
March 14, 2023
Five organizations of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today jointly condemned the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Curative Petition. Likening today’s decision with the apex court’s February 1989 decision on the settlement of the case, the organizations called it a “judicial assault on the constitutional and legal rights of the Bhopal survivors”. The organizations resolved to
continue their struggle for justice in Bhopal till all survivors are adequately compensated.
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Press Statement
December 31, 2022
Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal called off the waterless fast by 10 women survivors this afternoon after positive responses from both state and central governments.
According to the organizations, in a phone call with the leaders of the organizations this afternoon, the Minister of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief & Rehabilitation in the state government expressed agreement with the facts and figures presented by them and promised to finalize details in a meeting on January 4, 2023.
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पत्रकार वार्ता
30 दिसंबर, 2022
भोपाल में 1984 की यूनियन कार्बाइड गैस हादसे से पीड़ित 10 महिलाओं ने हादसे से हुई मौतों और चोटों के लिए उचित अतिरिक्त मुआवजे की माँग लेकर आज बिना पानी के अपना अनिश्चितकालीन अनशन शुरू किया। सत्याग्रह का नेतृत्व कर रहे पीड़ितों के पाँच संगठनों के नेताओं ने पत्रकार वार्ता को संबोधित करते हुए कहा कि यदि केंद्र व राज्य सरकारें जल्द ही सुनी जाने वाली सुधार याचिका में मौतों और चोटों के आंकड़ों में संशोधन नहीं करती हैं तो भोपाल के पीडि़तों को एक बार फिर यूनियन कार्बाइड और उसके मालिक डाव केमिकल से उचित मुआवजे लेने से वंचित कर दिया जाएगा।
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Press Conference
December 30, 2022
10 women survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal today began their indefinite fast without water demanding proper additional compensation for deaths and injuries caused by the disaster. Addressing a press conference, leaders of the five survivors’ organizations leading the Satyagraha said that the Bhopal survivors will be denied proper compensation once again if the central and state governments do not revise figures of death and extent of injuries in the soon to be heard Curative Petition for additional compensation from Union Carbide and its owner Dow Chemical.
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