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Survivors
“Bhopal isn’t only about charred lungs, poisoned kidneys and deformed foetuses. It’s also about corporate crime, multinational skulduggery, injustice, dirty deals, medical malpractice, corruption, callousness and contempt for the poor. Nothing else explains why the victims’ average compensation was just Rs 25,000—for a lifetime of misery. Yet the victims haven’t given up. Their struggle for…
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May sense and grace prevail upon Jairam Ramesh
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh came to Bhopal on July 5 to meet representatives of the Bhopal survivors organisations. During his last visit to Bhopal on September 14, 2009, he had picked up a piece of hazardous waste stored in the abandoned Union Carbide factory and somewhat like Hrithik Roshan in a Hide & Seek biscuits…
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Jairam Ramesh gets a roasting from TISS students in Mumbai
Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests, visited the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai on 28 June, 2010 to deliver an address. Students had planned to hold a silent protest outside the auditorium, but the Director dissuaded them, and offered a meeting with the Minister. Between 30 and 40 students attended the…
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Unbelievable: Govt of India sells out
Unbelievable: Govt of India sells out New Delhi – On Thursday 24 June, while Bhopal Survivors rallied in the streets of Delhi against the proposal by the Group of Minister on Bhopal, the Union Cabinet approved the measures. The $280 million (Rs 1265.56 crore) plan does little to bring real justice or help to the…
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Survivors demonstrate at M.P. Pollution Control Board
Over 100 survivors of the Union Carbide disaster and people exposed to ground water contaminated by Union Carbide’s hazardous waste, today demonstrated at the office of the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board demanding explanation of its role in the toxic exposure and injury of six workers at the MP Waste Management Facility at Pithampur near…
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Government aims to quell public anger rather than help Bhopalis
BHOPAL.NET OPINION. On the face of it, the Group of Ministers’ recommendations seem attractive. 700 crores in “enhanced compensation”, site to be cleaned, Anderson pursued – it sounds good, until you examine the details. Then it becomes clear that these proposals, while seeking to salve the public’s sorely wounded pride, actually do little or nothing…
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UPDATE ON INJUSTICES
UPDATE ON INJUSTICES: From verdict to new gov’t plan You have probably already heard about the June 7 verdict of Union Carbide India Limited and 7 company officials. You may have read about the verdict and the public uproar in the news. You may have also learned what the Bhopalis wanted the Prime Minister to…
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93% of Union Carbide’s victims will get no compensation
In their statement released today, seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations have condemened the Government’s hastily flung together plan to calm public outrage by appearing to offer additional compensation to the Bhopal survivors. In fact less than ten percent of people known to be exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic gases will receive any of this extra largesse.…
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August 11th, 2007: the Dalal Foundation presents the inaugural winners of the coveted Mir Zafars
The 1st Annual Mir Zafar Awards Ceremony was held at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi on 11th August 2007. These awards were presented to 12 eminent politicians, burearucrates and businessmen for their outstanding and invaluable contributions to corporate-led ‘development’ in India. A rather obscure but impressive-looking organisation, known as the Dalal Foundation, has instituted these…
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Bhopal survivors’ roadmap for justice and dignity
June 17, 2010. Seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations today sent a letter to the Group of Ministers on Bhopal (GoM), the group of ministers set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to co-ordinate response to the ongoing disaster. The full text of the letter can be read here.
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Bhopal Activists in New York City
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL – PRESS RELEASE June 14, 2010 Bhopal Activists in New York City deliver Arrest Warrant for Warren Anderson and Union Carbide Corporation to appear in Indian Criminal Court Bhopal Disaster Survivors and Supporters Around the World Express Outrage for Denial of Justice in Light of Recent Verdicts On June…
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“No More Bhopals: An evening of Protest, Songs, Peotry” in Delhi
“No More Bhopals: An evening of Protest, Songs, Peotry” in Delhi On Saturday a demonstration was held in Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against the recent shameful Court Verdict on the Bhopal Gas tragedy of 1984. Around 300 activist turned up at the demonstration and recited poems, sang song of freedom and justice and…
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US child activists appeal to Warren Anderson
On June 14, 2010 members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and of Kids for a Better Future spoke to media and attempted to hand-delivered copies of a warrant and criminal charges against Union Carbide Corporation and against its former CEO, Warren Anderson (who remains in hiding), to the offices of their attorneys,…
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Government protected Anderson: former CBI Director
INDUSTRY, IMPARTIALITY, INTEGRITY, says the badge of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the national equivalent of America’s FBI. Not according to its former Joint Director B. R. Lall, who was the senior officer in charge of the Bhopal investigation from April 1994 to July 1995. Lall, clearly nettled by criticisms that his organisation neglected…
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Union Carbide US was the real criminal
The people most responsible for the disaster in Bhopal were not in the courtroom yesterday when eight Indian employees of Union Carbide India Limited were found guilty of criminal negligence. Union Carbide Corporation (US), its ex-Chairman Warren Anderson, and Union Carbide Eastern, have been refusing since 1992 to obey the summons of the court and answer…