Category: Photos and Resources
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38th Anniversary – Photos and Videos from the Dharna at Jantar Mantar, Delhi
Survivors reached New Delhi on 3rd December, 2022 to demand action from the MP State and Union Governments on the curative petition for additional compensation. Photos from the day long dharna: Videos:
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Torch Rally to Memorial Statue on Occasion of 32nd Anniversary
Photos by Iris Janssens and Rachna Dhingra
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Old Warren Anderson Posters
The death of Warren Anderon, the CEO of Union Carbide at the time of the disaster, has only just come to light, even though he died over a month ago. Since 1984, the survivors of the world’s worst chemical disaster have been suffering because of the actions of this man. For 30 years the survivors…
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Direct Action at Dow Chemical Mumbai – Photos
Bhopali survivor-activists chained themselves to the gates of Dow Chemical’s Mumbai office, demanding that Dow (1) obey the summons issued by a Bhopal court; (2) pay additional compensation and; (3) clean up the site.
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Compensation Disbursement, Problems & Possibilities: a report by The Bhopal Group for Information and Action, 1991
COVER i – BHOPAL GROUP FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION ii – CONTENTS iii – List of Appendices and Tables iv – Map showing gas-affected areas of Bhopal 1 – INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND – The Bhopal Gas Disaster is an unprecedented event – Government’s response fraught with apathy and lack of innovation 2 – Durga Bai 3 – Disbursement of compensation is a task of unprecented…
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Medical
A chronicle of the continuing medical catastrophe in Bhopal with supporting medical papers and reports, documents, press cuttings, articles and research studies. ––The immediate effects of gas exposure and Union Carbide’s response. –– Survivors’ first clinic and sodium thiosulphate scandal. –– Damaged births in the aftermath of the gas leak. — Refusal of UCC and…
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Why I quit Carbide before 1984, by their medical officer Kumkum Saxena
On the night of December 3, 1984, 22 year old Kumkum Saxena sat in her home atop Idgah hill in Bhopal studying for a neurology exam the next day. The phone rang. Hysterical voices talked about a chemical leak, pleading for help. “Oh God, they’ve done it again,” Saxena exclaimed. Chemical leaks were not new…
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Source documents
“DISCOVERY” DOCUMENTS 584 pages of documents obtained via the “discovery process” in a class action suit brought against Union Carbide Corporation by contamination victims in a New York court. Work in progress. ENVIRONMENTAL NEERI report executive summary 1994 NEERI report executive summary 1997 LEGAL Bhopal case First Information Report (FIR) Key source documents in the…
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The Report of the ICFTU-ICEF Mission
The Report of the ICFTU-ICEF Mission to study the causes and Effects of the Methyl Isocyanate Gas Leak at the Union Carbide Pesticide Plant in Bhopal, India, on December 2nd/3rd 1984 International Confederation of Free Trade Unions International Federation of Chemical, Energy, and General Workers Unions. This report, based over an onsite study by a…
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media to add to site
Bhopal Press Photos by David Graham IBNLive.com, May 5, 2008 Poison in Bhopal Gallery by ReMedAct / Stephane Bouillet Bhopal XXV Gallery by Stephane Bouillet / Micha Patault / Kostas ESPN E60: The Children of Bhopal [Nov 9, 2010] (13:19) The Lawyer’s Guild – KPFK 90.7FM – Los Angeles Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes…
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Study proves second generational effects of Carbide’s gases
The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association last month published a ground breaking study carried out by the Sambhavna Trust Clinic which conclusively proves that the poison gases released by Union Carbide’s factory in Bhopal on December 3rd 1984 have had a severe medical impact on a generation unborn at the time of the…
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List of Quotes
“We are not expendable. We are not flowers offered at the altar of profit and power. We are dancing flames committed to conquering darkness and to challenging those who threaten the planet and the magic and mystery of life.” Rashida Bee, gas survivor, receiving the prestigious 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize * * * * * “If…
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“Bhopal Lives” – Personal Accounts of the Disaster and its Aftermath
Next Tuesday, December 3, the International Medical Commission-Bhopal (IMCB) will release its final report on the current medical, social, and economic status of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster, a leak of toxic gas that claimed around 10,000 lives in Bhopal, India, 12 years ago. The report, the culmination of a three-year study by…