Category: ICJB Press Releases, Statements, Letters
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Women survivors call off their waterless fast after positive responses from state & central governments
Press Statement December 31, 2022 Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal called off the waterless fast by 10 women survivors this afternoon after positive responses from both state and central governments. According to the organizations, in a phone call with the leaders of the organizations this afternoon, the Minister…
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10 Women Survivors Begin Indefinite Fast Without Water Demanding Proper Additional Compensation For Deaths and Injuries
Press Conference December 30, 2022 10 women survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal today began their indefinite fast without water demanding proper additional compensation for deaths and injuries caused by the disaster. Addressing a press conference, leaders of the five survivors’ organizations leading the Satyagraha said that the Bhopal survivors will…
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Bhopal survivors to launch peaceful mass action to make Central & State Govt fulfill its promises on revision of figures in the Curative Petition
Press Conference December 20, 2022 At a Press Conference today, five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the ongoing silence of the state and central governments over the figures of death and extent of injuries caused by the December 1984 disaster. They announced that if they do not get information…
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Thousands of Survivors Demonstrate at Jantar Mantar Demanding the Government show Correct Figures in the Curative Petition for Additional Compensation
Press Statement December 03, 2022 On the 38th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, thousands of survivors of the Union Carbide Gas Disaster of 3rd December 1984 demonstrated at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi today and demanded that the government should come out with accurate figures of deaths and health hazards due to the disaster. The…
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Survivors Express Gratitude for UK Parliamentarians Who Have Signed an Early Day on Bhopal
December 01, 2022 Five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today expressed gratitude to the members of UK Parliament who have signed on to an Early Day Motion (EDM) tabled in the Parliament on November 28.
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Bhopal survivors organisations launch campaign to hold state & central govts to honour their promises on additional compensation
Press Conference November 01, 2022 At a Press Conference today, five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal launched their month-long campaign to make governments at the state and the centre, honour their promises for additional compensation before the 38th anniversary of the disaster. The organizations shared their plan to hold a…
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SC hears the curative petition on additional compensation for Bhopal survivors
Press Statement October 11, 2022 Leaders of five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal expressed satisfaction at the Indian government’s commitment to pursue the Curative Petition for additional compensation in the Supreme Court at today’s hearing. They expressed hope that while the Court has limited the participation of organizations in…
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Survivors gather outside the office of Minister of Chemicals & demand that GOI fulfills its constitutional duty towards Bhopal Disaster Survivors
Press Statement 10 October 2022 Officials of the ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers today assured leaders of organizations of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster that the government of India will continue to pursue the Curative Petition for additional compensations coming up for hearing in the Supreme Court tomorrow. The Curative Petition filed in 2010…
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Survivor Organizations Reach Delhi With Legal Representation Regarding the Curative Petition Hearing
October 10, 2022 Bhopal disaster survivors’ organizations reached New Delhi today to submit a legal representation to the Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya.
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Survivors of Union Carbide gas disaster condemn the Indian Govt for failing to prepare for the Curative Petition for additional compensation
Press Statement September 20, 2022 Five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal have condemned the Indian government for failing to prepare for the Curative Petition that began to be heard in the Supreme Court today. They demanded that the government use the three weeks till the next hearing to…
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Survivors Remind State & Central Govts to Stop Misleading the SC Constitutional Bench in the Bhopal Gas Disaster Compensation Matter
Press Release 27 August 2022 At a press conference today, leaders of five organizations of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster welcomed the recent announcement on hearing of the long pending Curative Petition before the Supreme Court of India. They also expressed their apprehension that the Bhopal survivors will be denied just compensation…
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Bhopal Disaster Survivors Meet the Minister in Charge of Bhopal and Seek Action on 5 Crucial Issues
Today hundred survivors of 84’ Union Carbide disaster and those exposed to ground water contamination gathered outside BMHRC hospital to meet Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers. A delegation of 5 representatives met with the Minister and presented him with a memorandum and urged him to take…
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Bhopal District Judge orders UCIL & its convicted officials to present all its arguments from 25-29 April 2022
Press Release 26 March 2022 The organisations working with the survivors of the December 84 Union Carbide disaster are hopeful that there will be an end to the long drawn out criminal appeal proceedings pending against Union Carbide India Limited, & 7 of its Indian officials since 2010. In a hearing held on 25 March…
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MP Govt’s Proposed Action of Incinerating 337 MT of Hazardous Union Carbide Waste at Pithampur, MP is Dangerous
Within the next two months the MP government plans to send 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from Union Carbide’s Bhopal factory to an incinerator run by Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd in Pithampur located 300km from Bhopal. There are 4 things wrong with this proposed action.
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On the 37th Anniversary of the gas disaster, survivor organizations in Bhopal condemned Dow USA for its systematic discrimination against victims of the ongoing disaster
Press Conference 02 December 2021 On the occasion of the 37th Anniversary of the Union Carbide disaster, leaders of four survivors’ organizations in Bhopal condemned The Dow Chemical Company, USA for its systematic discrimination against survivors of the gas disaster and victims of groundwater contamination.