Tag: Rashida Bee & Champa Devi
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Rasheeda and Champa light a fire at the APHA Awards in Washington DC
At a moving ceremony at the American Public Health Association, Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla were honoured with the Association’s Occupational Health & Safety Award. Rashida and Champa were, predictably, articulate and passionate. Many among the audience were moved to tears. No surprise, commented our correspondent, given that those present were people who had…
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Survivors’ leaders to be honoured by the American Public Health Association
Bhopal survivors leaders Mrs. Rashida Bee and Mrs. Champa Devi Shukla left today for, USA to receive an international award for advancement of worker health and safety in India for the year 2004. The award, which is an honour that carries no monetary prize, will be presented to them by the American Public Health Association…
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Survivors celebrate Supreme Court victory
Organisations working with the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster held a celebratory party for S Muralidhar, the survivors’ lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. As counsel for Mrs Rashida Bee, Mrs Champa Devi Shukla and 34 other victims of Carbide’s gases, Muralidhar had moved a Writ arguing that undistributed compensation money…
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While The Law Ministry Dithers, Leading Legal Luminaries and Political Stalwarts Unanimously Opine that it is a “Golden Opportunity” that shouldn’t be missed: Hunger Strike Without Water by Bhopal Activists Enters Day 3
New Delhi, June 20, 2004: As the last day for the Indian Government to send a letter to the US Federal Court in New York for clean up of toxic contamination in and around its factory in Bhopal draws closer [June 30th being the deadline], the Law Ministry is stalling progress on this matter by…
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Law Minister gets his facts wrong.
Survivors’ leaders Champa Devi Shukla and Rashida Bee who recently won the Goldman Award and Vinuta Gopal went and met Law Minister Mr. Hans Raj Bharadwaj at 1pm at his office in Shastri Bhavan. The minister did not ask them to sit down (nor did he sit down himself, in fact he kept moving towards…
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UN Urged To Help Rehabilitate Bhopal
The Bhopal delegation visited the United Nations today to urge the organisation to end its “20-year long discriminatory stand” by intervening in Bhopal’s continuing humanitarian disaster. “UN agencies such as WHO, ILO and UNICEF remain silent as people continue to die at the rate of one a day, and babies are born with birth defects.…
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Stavropoulos admits own incompetence as 40 Million shares go against Dow
At Dow’s AGM today, with the shareholder’s vote on a Bhopal resolution safely out of the way, William Stavropoulos finally admitted he had ‘misspoken’ at last year’s meeting when denying the existence of outstanding criminal charges against Union Carbide. After the confession, Stavropoulos slithered away from every other question on the dreaded criminal charges more…
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Rashida and Champa win "Nobel Prize for the Environment"
Rashida Bee and Champa Devi have been announced as the winners of the prestigious Goldman Prize. The prize, given annually “for sustained and important efforts” by six ‘heroes of the environment’ worldwide, entails a “no strings attached” award of $125,000 – the largest and most highly regarded award in the world for grassroots environmentalists. Champa…
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San Francisco asks Dow to produce Carbide for trial
The City of San Francisco has become the first US city to pass a resolution urging Dow to address its liabilities in Bhopal. “It is unforgivable that survivors of the disaster are being revictimized by the inaction of Union Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical,” said City of San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin today.…
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Recent Bhopal talks at US colleges
Berkeley, April 14, 2004: Rashida Bee and Champa Devi, two survivors of the Bhopal disaster, and Sathyu Sarangi, a longtime activist for justice in Bhopal and managing Director of the Sambhavna Clinic, spoke at the University of California, Berkeley in an event organized by the Association of South Asian Political Activists and the South Asian…
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Absolutely positively your last chance to meet Rasheeda and Champa
Lucky San Franciscans. To meet Rasheeda Apa and Champa Didi before they fly back to India, please call Kinnu on (832)-444-1731
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Bhopal survivors arrive in the US
April 22nd – Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, gas affected survivors and leaders of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karamchari Sangh (Bhopal Gas Affected Women’s Stationery Workers’ Union / BGPMSKS), and Satinath Sarangi of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action arrived in Texas, US today for a 40 day tour. During their…