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25th Anniversary Resource Kit >> Background >> What Happened
25th Anniversary Kit >> Background [doc][pdf] >> What Happened in Bhopal WHAT HAPPENED IN BHOPAL – December 3, 1984 “It felt like somebody had filled our bodies up with red chilies, our eyes tears coming out, noses were watering, we had froth in our mouths. The coughing was so bad that people were writhing in…
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25th Anniversary Resource Kit >> Background >> Introduction
25th Anniversary Kit >> Background [doc][pdf] >> Introduction INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) is a coalition of people’s organizations, non-profit groups, and individuals who have joined forces to campaign for justice for the survivors of the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal. ICJB is…
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Dow: The Criminal Case
The Criminal Cases Bhopal is not only a disaster; it is also a corporate crime. The criminal cases focus on the manslaughter charges against Union Carbide and CEO Warren Anderson. Like the civil cases, the criminal cases are complicated by the need for cooperation between countries, which has not been forthcoming. Nonetheless, the cases press…
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Dow’s Legacy in Bhopal
Dow’s Liabilites: Overview Dow Chemical and Union Carbide claim that it has no liability for the Bhopal disaster. They are simply not telling the truth. Eight years after they bought Union Carbide, two court cases remain pending: one civil, heard in the Southern District federal court in New York, the other criminal, heard before the…
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Dow: The Civil Case
The Civil Case: Environmental Liability The Contamination Keen to distance itself from the disaster, Union Carbide fled India abandoning tons of toxic waste strewn in and around the factory site. According to former UCIL workers, for years before the disaster, massive amounts of chemicals – including pesticides, solvents, catalysts and wastes – were routinely dumped…
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Survivors demand answers from PM over Empowered Commission
March 6, 2009 – 125 Bhopal survivors descend upon the Prime Minister’s Office in Delhi to file RTI requests concerning efforts to fulfil promises regarding the Empowered Commission on Bhopal
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West or East, Dow is besieged: company officials run for it in Chennai
10th Feb 2009, Chennai: A group of 75 Bhopalis, including 15 members of ‘Children against Dow –Carbide,’ were in Chennai for the ‘Justice Rocks Concert’. While hundreds of Chennai Youth hummed to the tune of “Don’t work for dirty Dow’, Bhopalis decided to have a protest right at Dow’s hideout in Chennai. And the preparations…
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Bhopal Kids to Visit Chennai to Caution Organisations about Dow's CSR
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (Chennai) Press Release CHENNAI, 13 December, 2008 – Five Bhopali children affected by Union Carbide’s poisons, including three with visible deformities, are visiting Chennai from 16 to 19 December to urge the organisations that are promoting the famous “Jaipur Foot” to dissociate themselves with Dow Chemical (India) and Union…
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Cuddalore Remembers Bhopal
Cuddalore, 3 December 2008: Residents of the pollution impacted region of SIPCOT Cuddalore, along with residents of Old Town Cuddalore, organised several public meets and vigils on Dec 2 and 3rd to remember Bhopal.
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Cleaning up at the largest chemical show in India
The 5th international conference and exhibition of India’s largest chemical show” demanded a special input from ‘stakeholders’ and, as the ICJB did not want to disappoint, we created our own chemical industry consultancy firm and attempted to advertise it across two pages of India Chem 2008’s souvenir brochure. The Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce…
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Sisters team up for a win in Web contest
<a href="Julie Sharp, The Beach Reporter, October 16, 2008 Two sisters who were looking for a way to share their experience of a tragedy in India found a Web site design competition to document their venture and ended up winning an award, a trip to San Francisco and laptop computers. Alka Nath, a sophomore at…
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Portraits of Bhopali Protesters, in Delhi, April 2008
John Pitman Weber, Visual Art Today, September 10th, 2008 Lynn Hill, documentary photography Curated by John Pitman Weber Chicago: Lynn Hill’s portfolio of sidewalk portraits from Delhi, India is engaging, beautiful and humane. Of the two dozen odd images, ten are individual portraits, six are images of parent (or grandparent) and child, the rest show…
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Agitators burn shed at Dow Chemical’s construction site near Pune
Domain-b.com, July 26, 2008 Mumbai: The agitation against a research center being set up by Dow Chemical, which now own Union Carbide in India, took a violent turn on Friday with a mob about 100 people setting fire to a shed at its construction site at Shinde Vasuli village, about 40 km from Pune. The…
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**Action alert** – Police make arbitrary arrests as Dow burns
***Latest news*** August 1st: Last night a large number of policemen went to individual houses in Shinde-Vasuli village and broke down doors in over 20 houses. Fearing harassment by police, many villagers have left the village. The list of persons charged by the police now includes an additional 20 who are missing from the village.…
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Bhopalis Blame PMO of Iron-Curtain Attitude to Transparency
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangarsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE, 2008 — “The Prime Minister’s Office is stonewalling the Right to Information requests filed by representatives of Bhopal victims for a malafide purpose,” three Bhopal-based survivor and support organisations said today.…