Category: ICJB Victories
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Dow’s "Human Element" commercial, this time showing the truth
Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, December 7, 2006 More than 1,000 blogs, according to Technorati, have registered protests against Dow Chemical for its refusal to shoulder Union Carbide’s outstanding liabilities in Bhopal. Dow bosses are rattled, and their PR agency is now working on strategies for tackling “activists”. They’ll never get it, will they?…
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"A show of solidarity"
Not many of us can run a marathon. A grueling sport of physical endurance, marathon runners are expected to cover a distance of 26.2 miles – a distance so long that merely finishing the race is considered impressive. Yet last week Somu Kumar, a volunteer with the Association for India’s Development, not only completed the…
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Many more congratulations…
Congratulations continue to pour in from around the globe. One of our favorites: WOWOWOWOWO! Fanbloodytastic!!!! Tina *** Dear Mr Ryan Bodany and Students for Bhopal, Congratulations for this great victory! The Bhopal People deserves a better life quality after so many desperate years. I hope this incredible campaign work will bring a new perspective for…
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PM bows to Bhopal's protesters
By Randeep Ramesh, Delhi April 19, 2006 SURVIVORS of the Bhopal disaster have called off a week-long hunger strike after India’s Prime Minister promised to clean up the disused site, provide fresh drinking water for local people and build a $A30 million memorial to the dead. A leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a pesticide…
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Bhopal hunger strikers win clean-up fight
THE GUARDIAN, LONDON · Indian prime minister bows to protest demands · Clean water to be supplied for families near toxic site Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi Tuesday April 18, 2006 The Guardian Survivors of the Bhopal disaster called off a week-long hunger strike last night after India’s prime minister promised to clean up the…
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Bhopal campaigners call off hunger strike
TIMES OF INDIA Staff Correspondent Legal options will be explored to hold Dow Chemicals accountable: Manmohan • Manmohan meets delegation, agrees to some demands • Time-bound plan for delivery of safe drinking water • Scientific assessment of the spread of toxic contamination • Funds to address all health issues related to tragedy CELEBRATING VICTORY: Bridget…
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Safe water: Bhopal protestors taste first victory
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Awaaz FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 April, 2006. New Delhi Bhopalis and their supporters, who are currently demonstrating in Jantar Mantar and the six people who are on their 6 th day of indefinite…
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Cabinet nod on compensation to Bhopal victims
THE HINDU – Special Correspondent Government to meet shortfall NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the implementation of the 2004 Supreme Court order for disbursement of pro-rata additional compensation on one-on-one basis to victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy. It also decided that the Government will take responsibility for meeting the shortfall of…
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Carbide legacy fouls Dow’s buiness deal with Indian Oil Corporation
For immediate release 18 JULY, 2005. BHOPAL, NEW DELHI, CHENNAI Dow Chemical’s business expansion plans in India suffered their first serious setback after a campaign by survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster resulted in a dramatic reversal of Indian Oil Corporation’s decision to purchase technology from Dow for IOC’s proposed mono ethylene glycol plant…
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Survivors 5, Vultures 0
In a comprehensive victory for Bhopal survivors, the Indian Supreme Court today affirmed that unpaid compensation money amounting to £187 million (€270 million, US$343 million), belonged to the survivors and to them alone. The court dismissed applications by the government of Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Union Carbide’s Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust and…
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Survivors celebrate Supreme Court victory
Organisations working with the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster held a celebratory party for S Muralidhar, the survivors’ lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. As counsel for Mrs Rashida Bee, Mrs Champa Devi Shukla and 34 other victims of Carbide’s gases, Muralidhar had moved a Writ arguing that undistributed compensation money…
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Supreme Court orders unpaid compensation money to be given to survivors: celebrations in Bhopal, gloom in Midland, Michigan
19 July, 2004, Bhopal In a major victory for the Bhopal survivors, the Supreme Court today ordered the Government of India to distribute the balance of compensation remaining from Union Carbide’s settlement among the 566,876 Bhopal survivors whose claims have been successfully settled. The balance of the hitherto undistributed compensation has accumulated interest and grown…
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Government of India issues historic order, satyagrahis end fast
INDIAN GOVERNMENT BOWS TO PRESSURE, AGREES TO SUBMIT STATEMENT TO U.S. COURT IN THE UNION CARBIDE-BHOPAL CONTAMINATION CLEAN UP CASE. New Delhi, June 23, 2004: Six days after three Bhopal activists began their hunger strike, the Government of India finally bowed to pressure and agreed to submit a statement to the New York District Court…
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'Quick action': President of India makes a promise
“A process for cleaning up of the site has to be set in motion and I agree that this is a neglect that has to be rectified.” With these words Dr Kalam, President of India, places his considerable office squarely behind the ICJB’s demand for the environmental clean up of Carbide’s festering Bhopal factory. The…
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Students for Bhopal Targets Dow’s Decision-Makers
By Ryan Bodanyi Over the past three years, students have made it difficult for Dow’s decision-makers to ignore Bhopal, much as they might like to. In fact our efforts have shown how much power even a few students can have when they bring Bhopal ‘home’ to Dow. In Mr. Parker’s Neighborhood On Bhopal’s 18th anniversary,…