Category: News Articles on Bhopal & Dow Chemical
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Media Coverage of the Bhopal White House Petition
Below are links to recent media coverage of the Bhopalis’ White House petition and the supportive music video by Sofia Ashraf: http://www.thequint.com/world/2016/06/13/bhopal-gas-tragedy-white-house-petition-dow-chemical-petition-against-over-one-lakh-signatures-barack-obama http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/petition-calls-on-white-house-to-hold-dow-accountable-for-bhopal-leak-1418299 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bhopal-tragedy-over-100-000-signatures-against-dow-chemical-us-govt-compelled-to-give-formal-response/1/691033.html
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Ethecon awards 2014/2015 – Black Planet Award denounces the chairman of the board Andrew Liveris and board member James Ringler and the major shareholders of DOW CHEMICAL
The follow Press Release appears in: English, español, deutsch and français. ethecon honours the Sudan activist Tomo Križnar and shames the manager and major shareholders of DOW CHEMICAL / Public ceremony of awarding the ethecon awards and presentation „Stop FRONTEX!“ On occasion of the International Day of Peace on September 21st, 2015, ethecon – Foundation Ethics & Economy announces…
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The Hindu: Editorial – “A question of justice”
From: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-a-question-of-justice/article7389380.ece “The record settlement of $18.7 billion that the oil company BP has arrived at in the Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster case in the United States has naturally revived the debate on the denial of justice to the victims of a far bigger catastrophe — the Bhopal gas leak. As industrial accidents go, the…
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“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial
Dissent Magazine Madhusree Mukerjee ▪ Fall 2014 Click here for the original article. “They want me to be bankrupt, they want my wife to leave me, they want me to jump off a building,” says Steven Donziger, a lawyer based in New York City whose team won an unprecedented judgment against Chevron in 2011. That year, an…
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STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – Justice in the USA and India
Dec 10 2014 Association for India’s Development (AID) has always stood by the struggles of the oppressed and marginalized. We have a large volunteer base in the United States and today, on Human Rights Day, we are shocked by the choke that led to the death of Eric Garner in New York and the numerous…
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Business Insider: Bhopal Still Hasn’t Recovered From The Worst Industrial Disaster In History
Giles N. Clarke/Reportage by Getty Thirty years ago on Wednesday, in the city of Bhopal in central India, a gas leak from a local Union Carbide plant moved swiftly into residential areas, poisoning victims in their sleep. Due to a lack of sufficient safety systems, killing tens of thousands (no numbers were ever confirmed) and…
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Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy – New York Times
Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy DEC. 4, 2014 It’s been called the worst industrial accident in history, and it’s not over. Thirty years ago, during the wee hours of Dec. 3, 1984, a catastrophic gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed at least 5,000 people, and sickened thousands more who later died or became…
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Short Documentary about the Waterless Fast in Delhi
Please watch this short documentary about the protest and waterless fast in Delhi created by Al Jazeera’s new digital platform, AJ+.
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Hindustan Times: Bhopal court asks Dow to explain Union Carbide’s absence from trial
Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy may have failed to bring Warren Anderson, the prime accused in the fatal accident to justice, but they have managed to get Dow Chemicals to face trial in a Bhopal court. The US-based Dow Chemicals, which took over Union Carbide Corp (UCC) in 2001, has been summoned by…
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Bhopal victims launch hunger strike for better compensation
NEW DELHI: 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, including first…
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Warren Anderson’s death to impact film on Bhopal gas tragedy?
The death of Warren Anderson former CEO of Union Carbide who was held responsible for the death of thousands during what infamously incident came to be known as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, died on September 29. The sudden death of the controversial figure puts a question mark on the film Bhopal: A Prayer For Rains, the…
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Bhopal unending tragedy? Thirty years after the incident.
There is much that is interesting about Bhopal. The period between 1890 and 1926, for example, when it was ruled by a succession of Begums, or its sobriquet of ‘city of lakes’. If Benaras is known for its exquisite silks, Bhopal was famous for its zari work. All that changed on the intervening night of December 2-3,…
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Bhopal Gas tragedy: Victims to go on indefinite hunger fast from today
New Delhi: Ahead of the 30th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, the representatives of five organizations of survivors will today go on an indefinite fast at the Jantar Mantar where they will place demands to enhance compensation. The agitation would be organised under the banner of hundreds of survivors who would support the fast by…
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Bhopal gas tragedy survivors gear up for indefinite fast
Bhopal gas tragedy victims gathered at Neelam Park in Bhopal on Sunday in sizeable numbers before leaving for New Delhi to participate in a protest at Jantar Mantar on Monday to highlight their demand for greater compensation from Union Carbide or its successor company Dow Chemical. The five organisations leading the protest are also demanding…
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Bhopal gas tragedy survivors begin indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar
New Delhi: Five women representatives from Bhopal-based organisations along with thousands of survivors of the Union Carbide tragedy today began an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi demanding enhancement in the compensation. The agitators called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers to correct the errors of the…