Category: Shameless
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Supreme Court Dismisses Curative Petition – A Black Day for Bhopal
Injustice today at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court verdict on Criminal Curative Petition took everyone in Bhopal by surprise both in its timing as well as in its import. Most people were expecting the order to come in July after the Supreme Court’s vacations. That is when the civil curative petition hearing is also…
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Illegal drug trials killed 10 Bhopal gas victims
Mail Today Science Bureau | New Delhi, February 11, 2011 Mrs. Salma Bi, the widow of late Mr. Nasir Khan, a victim of December 1984 Bhopal gas disaster who died of drug trial, narrating her woes to newsmen Ten victims of the Gas Leak in Bhopal have died during unethical drug trials being conducted among gas…
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CNN-IBN: Cancer rates in Bhopal
Bhopal gas tragedy: cancer rates treble http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bhopal-gas-tragedy-cancer-rates-treble/146063-3.html Click the link above to view the video corresponding to this piece. Mumbai: It was undoubtedly the world’s worst industrial disaster but 26 years on, the skeletons of the past still haunt the population. The Indian Council of Medical Research has carried out more than 18 studies on…
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Dec 3, 1984: A Night of Death in Bhopal
Death and Chaos in the City Death came hurtling of a clear sky on December 3rd, 1984. A cold midnight wind blew, with stars brilliant as they are in central India, glistening through the thin pall of cooking-fire smoke that typically hung above the city. Here and there, braziers were burning to warm those who…
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Predictable and Preventable
Carbide’s Safety Meltdown NONE of the safety systems designed to prevent a leak – six in all – were operational on THAT NIGHT: 1. Flare Tower: Disconnected 2. Vent Gas Scrubber: Out of caustic soda and inadequate for unsafe volume of gas 3. Water Curtain: Not functional; designed with inadequate height 4. Pressure Valve: Leaking…
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Press Statement: Unethical Drug Testing on Bhopal Gas Victims
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Gas Peedit Nirashrit Pension Bhogi Sangharsh Morcha Children Against Dow Carbide Bhopal Group for Information and Action Press Statement – February 10, 2011 At a press conference today five organizations campaigning for justice in the case of the 1984 Union…
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Dow AgroSciences blacklisted for bribing
The following article was published on September 18: The Economic Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre has blacklisted Dow AgroSciences India for five years for bribing government officials to expedite registration of three pesticides in the country. The order to ban Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of US-based Dow Chemicals, from undertaking any commercial activity in…
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Bhopal survivors call for accountability for American corporation on first day of Obama’s visit to India
6 November, 2010. BHOPAL — About 100 survivors of Bhopal gas disaster and those affected by ground water contamination caused by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste staged a demonstration outside the Union Carbide Factory in Bhopal demanding that President OBama meet with them in Delhi to ensure that Union Carbide & Dow Chemical obey Indian laws…
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Dow Agro: company faces ban on bribery charge
NEW DELHI: Dow AgroSciences India Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Dow Chemicals, is likely to be blacklisted by the government following its persistent refusal to respond to show-cause notices over charges of bribery. The agriculture ministry had asked the company why action should not be initiated against it for bribing officials to push three sub-standard…
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White House Tells India to Protect Dow from Bhopal Liability
Obama Administration Official Supports Corporate Interests Over Victims of World’s Worst Industrial Disaster Deputy National Security Advisor Froman reveals administration’s double standards on corporate accountability for victims of Bhopal Gas Disaster INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL PRESS STATEMENT: August 18, 2010 CONTACTS: Shana Ortman, 415-746-0306, shana@panna.org, ICJB U.S. Coordinator Claire Rosenfeld, 408-348-2554, clairerosenfeld12@gmail.com, ICJB…
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Obama kicks BP’s ass but warns India to ease off on Dow Chemical
Barack Obama’s administration is busy kicking six kinds of shit out of BP, a foreign company whose subsidiary committed an environmental crime against US citizens, but Obama and his advisors see no contradiction or irony in trying to get Dow Chemical off the hook of its inherited Bhopal liability for contaminating the water thus causing…
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Obama Administration Official Supports Corporate Interests Over Victims of World’s Worst Industrial Disaster
Deputy National Security Advisor Froman reveals administration’s double standards on corporate accountability for victims of Bhopal Gas Disaster INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL PRESS STATEMENT: August 18, 2010 At a time when the world is focused on corporate accountability in the wake of the BP’s Gulf Oil Spill, a leaked email from the Obama…
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No Bhopal clean up without Dow liability and full environmental analysis
The endgame has begun. The present moment, coming after the extraordinarily shoddy Group of Ministers (GoM) report on Bhopal and the Madhya Pradesh government’s manoeuvres to hammer a lid on the issue of contamination of the pesticides plant and its surroundings, is probably the last opportunity to prevent an artificial closure of all the complex…
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Anatomy of a terrible betrayal: the Bhopal tragedy
In a recent verdict, senior managers of Union Carbide were let off with a surprisingly light sentence for their role in the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal. Amid public outrage, the Indian government hastily set up a ministerial panel, but their recommendations are a betrayal of the victims and survivors of the gas leak for…