Author: Rox Carter
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Bhopal – Three decades of Struggle: Gas survivors begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar
The struggle for justice and adequate compensation continues even after three decades after the country’s first major industrial disaster New Delhi/Bhopal: Five women survivors of the ill-famous 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today began an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar here along with a thousand survivors and their children sitting in a dharna, demanding…
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Bhopal gas victims leave for Delhi protest
Five survivors of the leak of poisonous gases from US multinational Union Carbide on 2-3 December, 1984 have decided to fast without water demanding additional compensation for all affected people from November 10. The five organizations leading the protest are also demanding revision of the figures of death and extent of injuries caused by the…
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Hollywood ‘has let US off hook’ over Bhopal
Survivors of the Bhopal disaster have criticised a new Hollywood film for misrepresenting the gas leak in 1984 that killed 15,000 people. The film Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain, starring Martin Sheen, was released in America on Friday to mark the 30th anniversary of the events at a US-owned pesticide factory in central India. The disaster,…
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Bhopal gas victims to begin indefinite fast Monday
New Delhi: Almost 30 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, several survivors of the world’s worst industrial disasters will Monday commence an indefinite fast here, demanding additional compensation for all survivors and correction of data in the curative petition filed in the Supreme Court by the central government.
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Waterless Fast Journey Begins
Press Statement November 09, 2014 Hundreds of survivors of the gas disaster in Bhopal gathered at Neelam Park today on their way to the trains for New Delhi for the protest action tomorrow at Jantar Mantar. Five survivors of the leak of poisonous gases from US multinational Union Carbide on 2-3 December, 1984 have decided to fast…
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Victims of 1984 Bopal gas disaster launch hunger strike for better compensation
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Victims of the Bhopal gas disaster, suffering deformities and illnesses, staged a hunger strike in the Indian capital Monday for increased compensation ahead of the 30th anniversary of the tragedy. Holding signs that read “Justice for Bhopal”, about 100 mainly women and children gathered at a protest site in New Delhi,…
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We need your support – Take action against DOW
On December 2nd/3rd, 2014 it will be the 30th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Thirty years and survivors continue to struggle for their right to adequate healthcare (and medical research), economic and social rehabilitation, adequate compensation, a pollution-free environment and justice. The Indian courts have summoned The Dow Chemical Company to explain why its…
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Bhopal Gas Victims to go on an indefinite waterless hunger fast on 10 Nov @ Jantar Manter, Delhi for their demand of adequate compensation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 3, 2014 At a press conference today, representatives of five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal announced their plans of an indefinite water-less fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi from November 10 on the issue of compensation. They said that five women survivors will stop taking…
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Police beat women who asked politicians to obey Indian Supreme Court order
May 20, 2005 Toxic chemicals abandoned at its factory by Union Carbide have poisoned the drinking water of 20,000 people. In May 2004 the Indian Supreme Court ordered local politicians to provide the communities with clean, safe drinking water. The politicians ignored the order. On Tuesday 17 May, 300 people, overwhelmingly women, many with children…
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Students call for University of California to sever links with Dow
March 11, 2005 In another manifestation of what has become the largest students campaign against Dow since the Vietnam War, students at the University of California called for the university to divest from Dow and refuse further donations. Among the reasons given were the unresolved Bhopal liabilities of Dow’s 100%-owned subsidiary Union Carbide, which is…
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Bhopal protests catch Dow pants down in Texas, New Orleans, Berlin and Chicago
March 9, 2005 Bhopal protests have been cropping up all over the planet, where Dow least expects them. On February 17, Diane Wilson and others attended a Dow banquet at Lake Jackson, Texas where they were received with all the joy and hospitality Macbeth showed to Banquo’s ghost. Bhopal campaigners turned up to picket Dow’s…
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Murky deal may help Carbide sneak back into India
February 28, 2005 A new Union Carbide scandal broke in India today as furious Bhopal survivors protested against leaked plans of a shadowy deal between Carbide’s 100% owner Dow Chemical and the Indian Oil Corporation to supply ethylene glycol technology for IOC’s Panipat complex. The process, called METEOR, is thought to belong to Union Carbide,…
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Dow wins 2005 Public Eye Award for worst corporation
BHOPAL LANDS DOW CHEMICAL HUMAN RIGHTS BOOBY PRIZE The Public Eye on Davos – the coalition of NGOs set up as a counterweight to the WEF, has voted Dow Chemical Worst Corporation in the human rights category of its excrescence awards. Dow easily beat a field of deeply unpleasant competitors that included Bayer, Bechtel, Nestlé,…
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Bhopal water protest – latest
We were about 350 people in all. About 10 men, the rest all women. We reached the Director’s office [Director, Department of Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation, Madhya Pradesh Government] around noon. The office is right opposite the Governor’s residence and hence within a high security zone, but it took a while for the…