Tag: 30th anniversary
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प्रेस विज्ञप्ति
प्रेस विज्ञप्ति 5 जून 2015 विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस के अवसर पर यूनियन कार्बाइड के परित्यक्त कारखाने के आस पास के रहवासियों ने आज पिछले 19 सालों से दबे हज़ारों टन जहरीले कचरे को हटा नहीं पाने की सरकार की विफलता के खिलाफ प्रदर्शन 13 जो कैंसर और जन्मजात विकृतियां पैदा करते है और जो जिगर,…
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Resident of water contaminated areas ask the Govt of India when will the Union Carbide’s toxic waste be cleaned up?
Press Statement June 05, 2015 On the occasion of World Environment Day residents from the neighbourhood of Union Carbide’s abandoned factory in Bhopal demonstrated against the Indian government’s failure in removing thousands of tons of poisonous waste for the last 19 years. Hundreds of residents stood in the form of a question mark and held…
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प्रेस विज्ञप्ति
प्रेस विज्ञप्ति फरवरी 24, 2015 भोपाल में यूनियन कार्बाइड हादसे के पीड़ितों के बीच काम कर रहे पाँच संगठनों ने आज एक पत्रकार वार्ता में संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ के पर्यावरण कार्यक्रम द्वारा यूनियन कार्बाइड कारखाने के आस-पास के जहरीले प्रदूषण के वैज्ञानिक आंकलन की सम्भावना व्यक्त की | संगठनों के नेताओं ने पर्यावरण, वन एवं…
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Bhopal gas survivor ask the environment minister Mr. Javdekar to take up the UNEP offer of comprehensive scientific assessment of the contamination and UC factory
Press Statement 24 February 2015 At a press conference today, five organisations working for the welfare of the survivors of the December ’84 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal announced the possibility of a comprehensive scientific assessment of the contamination around the Union Carbide factory by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The leaders of the…
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Bhopal gas survivor organisations congratulate AAP for defeating both BJP & Congress; who have betrayed the interests of gas victims
प्रेस विज्ञप्ति 12 फरवरी दिसंबर ’84 यूनियन कार्बाइड के गैस कांड के पीड़ितों के पाँच संगठनों ने आज नीलम पार्क में आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में दिल्ली में आम आदमी पार्टी की जीत पर बधाई दी। संगठनों ने बताया कि गैस पीड़ित दिल्ली के चुनाव के नतीजों से विशेष तौर पर खुश हैं क्योंकि इसमें उनके साथ धोखा…
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Bhopal gas survivor organisations congratulate AAP for defeating both BJP & Congress; who have betrayed the interests of gas victims
12 February 2015 At an event organized at Neelam Park today, five organizations of survivors of the December 84 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal congratulated the Aam Aadami Party for their thumping victory in Delhi elections. The organizations said that gas victims of Bhopal are particularly happy with the outcome of the Delhi elections because…
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Call for 2015/2016 Coordinating Committee Members
In this vital 30th anniversary year, ICJB North America is looking for Coordinating Committee (CC) members. As part of the CC, you will be responsible for helping develop the campaign in North America. Below are a list of the positions we are seeking: Website Coordinator Key tasks: updating website content, improve interface, sending out Low…
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Letter to President Obama on the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Disaster
Mr. Barak Obama, President, United States of America, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500 December 3, 2014 Subject: Letter from the Survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India. Sir, On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster, we five organizations of survivors’ of Bhopal,…
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“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial
Dissent Magazine Madhusree Mukerjee ▪ Fall 2014 Click here for the original article. “They want me to be bankrupt, they want my wife to leave me, they want me to jump off a building,” says Steven Donziger, a lawyer based in New York City whose team won an unprecedented judgment against Chevron in 2011. That year, an…
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Boston commemorates 30th anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster with vigil and chants
Boston commemorates 30th anniversary of Bhopal Gas Disaster with vigil, chants Calls for continuing struggle for justice and ensuring “No More Bhopals” A large number of people turned up in front of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 77 Mass. Ave in Cambridge on Dec 3 2014 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster.…
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STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – Justice in the USA and India
Dec 10 2014 Association for India’s Development (AID) has always stood by the struggles of the oppressed and marginalized. We have a large volunteer base in the United States and today, on Human Rights Day, we are shocked by the choke that led to the death of Eric Garner in New York and the numerous…
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Business Insider: Bhopal Still Hasn’t Recovered From The Worst Industrial Disaster In History
Giles N. Clarke/Reportage by Getty Thirty years ago on Wednesday, in the city of Bhopal in central India, a gas leak from a local Union Carbide plant moved swiftly into residential areas, poisoning victims in their sleep. Due to a lack of sufficient safety systems, killing tens of thousands (no numbers were ever confirmed) and…
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Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy – New York Times
Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy DEC. 4, 2014 It’s been called the worst industrial accident in history, and it’s not over. Thirty years ago, during the wee hours of Dec. 3, 1984, a catastrophic gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed at least 5,000 people, and sickened thousands more who later died or became…