Category: ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters
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Survivors of the Bhopal Gas Disaster Share Stories and Commonalities with Anti-Pollution Fighters of Beaver County, PA
For Immediate Release September 14th 2024 (Monaca, PA, USA) – Survivors of the devastating 1984 Bhopal, India gas disaster spoke powerfully about their experiences and quest for justice, while drawing parallels with similar struggles for environmental justice in Western Pennsylvania and East Palestine, Ohio. Today, over 150,000 Bhopalis are battling chronic illnesses due to the…
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Bhopal40 US Tour: U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Councilmember Santiago-Romero Join Bhopal Survivors Call to Dow for Justice
Detroiters join survivors of world’s worst industrial accident to hold Dow accountable, demand justice
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Survivor Organizations Condemn the Proposed Merger of BMHRC with AIIMS, Bhopal
Press Conference August 22, 2024 At a press conference today, leaders of four organizations of survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the proposed merger of a hospital meant for healthcare of survivors with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal.
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Survivor Orgs Announce Revival of Joint Campaign For Securing Adequate Compensation For All Survivors of The Disaster
Press Conference August 13, 2024 At a press conference today, five organizations of survivors announced the revival of their 13-years long joint campaign for securing adequate compensation for all survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. The organizations released a copy of the letter they have recently sent to the Prime Minister…
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ICJB’s Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights
On 29th March 2024, The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, Dr. Marcos A. Orellana. The submission highlighted the ongoing impacts faced by women survivors and next generations of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy due to exposure to the gas and to…
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39th Anniversary: Survivors Demand Compensation, Commission on Bhopal and Punishment For the Guilty Corporations
Press Statement 02 December 2023 Hundreds of members of five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal today marched with torches to honour those killed by the disaster. The torchlight procession ended at the foot of the statue of the Mother, a memorial built opposite the abandoned pesticide factory. The leaders…
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On the 39th Anniversary, Survivor Orgs Condemn Attempts of Dept of Gas Relief to close down the Dept.
Press Conference November 30, 2023 Addressing a press conference on the occasion of the 39th Anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, leaders of five survivors’ organizations celebrated their recent victory in making Dow Chemical appear in the Bhopal court. The leaders strongly condemned attempts by the Minister and officials of the Department of Bhopal…
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Dow lawyers fill Bhopal court in criminal liability case, Railway Men series still being written, says Bhopal group
Press Statement, Bhopal, November 25. In the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Vidhan Maheshwari, a group of 10 lawyers appeared today on behalf of Dow Chemical to deny that, by this appearance, Dow was accepting the jurisdiction of the court. The criminal proceedings, from which Carbide has been a proclaimed absconder for 31…
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Dow ‘appears’ in Bhopal criminal court after two decade delay
Press Statement 3 October 2023 Today, the authorised representative of Dow Chemical USA, Ms. Amy Wilson has filed a so-called partial appearance before the court of Hon. VII CIVIL JUDGE-I Vidhan Maheshwari through its lawyers. Dow filed a one page memo stating that Bhopal Court does not have jurisdiction over the corporation as it is…
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Survivor Orgs Celebrate as Bhopal Court’s Summon is Served Upon Dow, Demand CBI to Ensure Speedy Prosecution
Press Conference October 2, 2023 At a Press Conference today, four organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster celebrated their success in having the summons of the Bhopal District Court served upon The Dow Chemical Company in the criminal case arising out of the December 1984 gas disaster. They demanded that the Central…
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Survivor Organisations Thank 12 US Congresspersons For The Unprecedented Action on Dow Summons
Five Bhopal based organizations thanked the 12 Congressmen for this unprecedented action. “It is indeed heartening to find some of the most powerful voices in the US Congress calling for the US DOJ to act as per law and stop their country’s image being sullied as a safe haven for criminal corporations.” Said Goldman Environmental…
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Congressmembers call on the US Department of Justice to serve Bhopal Gas Disaster criminal summons on Dow Inc
Reps insist the DoJ must honor Bilateral Treaty obligations by acting on India’s request, for the 7th time, that it serve summons on the US chemical giant
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Survivors Orgs Demand That Govt Take Legal Steps to Make Union Carbide & Dow Accountable as Scientific Study Confirms Long Term Health Damage to Next Generation of Gas Victims
Press Release June 24, 2023 Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster today addressed a press conference on the recently published scientific study on the health impact of the disaster on children who were in the wombs of their mothers when they inhaled the poisonous gas.
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Survivor organisations claim that the 34 page judgement of the Supreme Court shows bias for Union Carbide – a proclaimed absconder
Press Conference March 20, 2023 At a press conference today organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal presented their response to the decision of the Supreme Court that was made available online on March 15, 2023. Earlier, the organizations had condemned the decision on the day the Curative Petition for additional compensation…
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SC’s dismissal of curative petition is a judicial assault on the constitutional and legal rights of Bhopal survivors
Press Statement March 14, 2023 Five organizations of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today jointly condemned the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Curative Petition. Likening today’s decision with the apex court’s February 1989 decision on the settlement of the case, the organizations called it a “judicial assault on the constitutional and legal…