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Bhopalis arrested at die-in outside Chief Minister’s house: Urgent Action and Press Statement
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aawaaz CALL FOR URGENT ACTION Seven Bhopalis have been arrested and taken to two police station for being part of a die-in in front of the Chief Minister’s House. A press release of…
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Bhopal gas tragedy survivors threaten stir to press demands
Staff Reporter, The Hindu, March 2, 2007 The survivors have been demanding clean drinking water, medicare # Madhya Pradesh “obstructing” rehabilitation of survivors # “Supreme Court orders ignored” NEW DELHI: Representatives of the Bhopal gas tragedy survivors have threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike in Bhopal from March 5 if their long-pending demands…
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Survivors accuse Madhya Pradesh government of squandering huge sums supposed to have been spent on the provision of employment to gas victims
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aawaaz March 2, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the completion of ten days of their “Jeene ka Haq” dharna (“Right to Live” sit-in) the four organisations campaigning against the Madhya…
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Students gherao Tata building against Ratan’s offer to bail out Union Carbide
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW DELHI, 2 March, 2007 More than 40 student supporters of the struggle for justice for Bhopal from Delhi colleges, and youth organizations including We For Bhopal and Tarunima, today protested against Ratan Tata in front of the Tata office in the crowded Connaught Place market. The students were outraged at Ratan…
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Bhopal survivors take the protest to Delhi
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal ki Aawaaz Bhopal Group for Information and Action March 1, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT More than a year since 55 Bhopal survivors and their supporters walked 800 km from Bhopal to New Delhi, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster are…
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Coming of the tide
Shamik Bag, Indian Express, March 1, 2007 His plan to write a book on the Sunderbans joins author Dominique Lapierre to a long list of authors, filmmakers, photographers and tourist agencies who have the gruelling region in focus. The Sunderbans story, though, is far from over French author Dominique Lapierre rues the fact that the…
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Bhopal survivors threaten indefinite hunger strike
Press Trust of India, New Delhi, March 1, 2007 Survivors of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy on Thursday threatened to go on an indefinite hunger-strike if their long-pending demands of cleaning up of the environment, clean drinking water, medical care and social rehabilitation were not immediately met.
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Lapierre school built from Audrey Hepburn gown sales proceeds
Numerous news sources, February 28, 2007 After more than 13 years she died, Hollywood sensation Audrey Hepburn got a new lease of life in a remote West Bengal village, thanks to the altruistic zeal of French writer Dominique Lapierre. At a South 24 Parganas village, 50 km south of Kolkata, the celebrated French writer Wednesday…
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Survivors present evidence of medical problems, efficacy of yoga and ayurveda, slam state healthcare system as incompetent, apathetic and corrupt
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aawaaz February 27, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a Press Conference today a group of people suffering from different chronic ailments due to Union Carbide’s poisonous chemicals shared their experience of getting sustained relief…
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Cloud of despair in Bhopal: Victims of 1984 industrial disaster still battle health effects from gas leak
I recently came across this article written soon after the merger in which Dow Chemical swallowed up Union Carbide. It is so poignant, to read about friends now dead, the despair caused by inaction and neglect that continues, the hope that the company could be brought to book still alive, despite all that has happened.…
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy survivors demand pension, free treatment
ZEE NEWS, FEBRUARY 25, 2007 Bhopal, Feb 25: Claiming that chromosomal aberrations among people exposed to Union Carbide’s toxic gases have caused birth defects among their children, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today sought monthly pension and free treatment for them. Over 120 children of gas-affected parents, below the age of 12 years,…
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Right to Life dharna (Day Four): A torchlight procession and old voices singing "Cuckuroo"
Pragya Bhagat, Bhopal, February 23, 2007 They work for the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karamchari Sangh (Bhopal Gas Affected Women’s Stationery Workers’ Union). Clad in dark burkhas with bright pinks and magentas peaking from underneath their cloaks, they gossip and laugh amongst themselves. It is hard to see the anger in their kohl-lined eyes.…
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Dow to US watchdog: we bribed Indian officials for clearances
Sonu Jain, Indian Express, February 24, 2007 NOCIL: SEC ruling details how Dow Chem senior management greased palms of top regulatory officials through petty contractors NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 23: Dow Chemical has admitted that to “expedite” registration of its pesticides in India between 1996 and 2001, its senior management in India approved and made “irregular…
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Bhopal gas victims launch "Right to Live" campaign
INDIA ENEWS.COM, BHOPAL, FEBRUARY 23, 2OO7 It’s been a year since tall promises of relief and rehabilitation were made to them. But, as 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy survivors pointed out while launching the Right to Live campaign Tuesday, there has been little help from the Madhya Pradesh government.