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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 4
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 26-04-2011, DAY 4 Today, to me it seemed that Mr. Salve essentially repeated the arguments he had made on the last hearing. He started from where he had left the Court…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 3
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 20-04-2011, DAY 3 The Court room was completely packed. Today there were many more law students present. In neat black and white uniforms their eagerness to merge as one among the…
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Dispatches from the Supreme Court – Day 2
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 19-04-2011, DAY 2 Having reached the Supreme Court in time and securing a place in the public gallery I finally got some time to take in the general ambience of the…
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Indian Supreme Court hears Bhopal curative petition
An important hearing, which could reopen the case against Union Carbide Corporation and possibly even reopen the controversial and inadequate 1989 settlement, is taking place in India’s apex court. In a series of daily dispatches, Shalini Sharma, a PhD student at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, guides us through the proceedings, summarising…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 5
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 27-04-2011, DAY 5 Today was a busy day inside the court. The discussion in last few days revolved around the scope of a curative, its ground and whether by admitting a…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 4
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 26-04-2011, DAY 4 Today, to me it seemed that Mr. Salve essentially repeated the arguments he had made on the last hearing. He started from where he had left the Court…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 3
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 20-04-2011, DAY 3 The Court room was completely packed. Today there were many more law students present. In neat black and white uniforms their eagerness to merge as one among the…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 2
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 19-04-2011, DAY 2 Having reached the Supreme Court in time and securing a place in the public gallery I finally got some time to take in the general ambience of the…
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Despatches from the Supreme Court – Day 1
Blog from Shalini Sharma, Phd Candidate at SOAS who is currently on fieldwork in India studying the media experience and strategies of Bhopal Movement. 13-04-2011, DAY 1 The morning started in the characterstic Bhopali style with unpredictable chaos. While Sathyu had to rush back home to get his identity proof, a mandatory requirement to enter…
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Bhopalis welcome curative petition in SC for compensation enhancement
February 28, 2011 Press Statement Representatives of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today welcomed the admission of the curative petition for enhancement of compensation by the Supreme Court of India. Holding the Government of India primarily responsible for the collusive settlement of 1989, they stated that the…
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Bhopalis welcome curative petition in SC for compensation enhancement
February 28, 2011 Press Statement Representatives of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today welcomed the admission of the curative petition for enhancement of compensation by the Supreme Court of India. Holding the Government of India primarily responsible for the collusive settlement of 1989, they stated that the government’s…
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Press Release: Bhopal Survivors Protest BMHRC Drug Trials
February 24, 2011 Press Statement Hundreds of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today marched to the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (BMHRC) demanding suspension of senior consultants involved with unethical drug trials on gas victims and preferential treatment of non gas victims. Opposing attempts by the state government to take control…
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Letter to DAE from Bhopal Survivor Groups
To, Shri A.P. Joshi Chairman: Empowered Committee on BMHRC Additional Secretary Department of Atomic Energy Government of India Anushakti Bhawan, CSM Marg, Mumbai Fax: 022-22844628 18-February-2011 Sub: Case for effective administration of Bhopal Memorial Hospital Research Centre by the Department of Atomic Energy and rejection of proposal by the MP Government regarding setting…
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Bhopal Survivor Groups demand criminal investigation over drug trials
February 10, 2011 Press Statement At a press conference today five organizations campaigning for justice in the case of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today demanded immediate suspension of senior consultants of the Bhopal Memorial Hospital who are guilty of causing deaths of at least 10 gas victims by unethical drug trials. The…