Tag: water contamination
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70% of Water Samples in Communities Around UC Factory Found Contaminated With Faeces; Survivors’ Groups Warn of Bhagirathpura-Like Crisis
Leaders of survivor organisations accused the Bhopal Municipal Corporation of creating a situation like Indore’s Bhagirathpura by supplying sewage contaminated water in the residential areas around the abandoned factory.
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ICJB’s Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights
On 29th March 2024, The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, Dr. Marcos A. Orellana. The submission highlighted the ongoing impacts faced by women survivors and next generations of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy due to exposure to the gas and to…
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Building a Memorial on the highly contaminated Union Carbide factory site is a “planned cover-up” of the crimes of Dow Chemical against the environment and people of Bhopal
Press Conference 7 July 2021 At a press conference today leaders of four organizations working with survivors of the Union Carbide disaster called the state government’s move to build a memorial on the highly contaminated factory site, a “planned cover-up” of the crimes of Dow Chemical against the environment and people in Bhopal.
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Survivors: Bhopal Municipal Corporation Submitted False Affidavit to Supreme Court Regarding Drinking Water Quality
Press Conference / हिन्दी पत्रकार वार्ता October 25, 2018 At a Press Conference today, leaders of four organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal charged the Bhopal Municipal Corporation of submitting a false affidavit to the Supreme Court of India regarding quality of drinking water. They said that a formal complaint with…
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For World Water Day, ICJB Asks UNEP to Take Action on Ongoing Soil & Ground Water Contamination
To Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Michel Jarraud, Chair of United Nations Water (UN-Water) Georg Kell, Executive Director, Global Compact Robert Skinner, Associate Director, The United Nations Foundation, New York cc: Gavin Power, Deputy Director/Issue Management – CEO Water mandate, Global Compact Lila Karbassi, Issue Management – Environment, Global Compact…
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17 January 2014 – Statement of Solidarity
The West Virginia Chemical Spill: Solidarity from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, North America (ICJB-NA) expresses solidarity with the communities of West Virginia that are facing a toxic nightmare. The Freedom Industries chemical spill and the Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) chemical leak in Bhopal, India share…
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Survivor Memories – 29th Anniversary
The women-activists of Bhopal are central to taking the struggle forward. The following testimonials were gained from women-activists in the survivors’ groups that led ICJB in 2010. Vimla Bai, in her early 40s I got involved because water is poisoned and people were exposed to gas…[O]ur children are getting sick since the water is contaminated,…
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ESPN Coverage of Bhopal Pollution
ESPN E60: The Children of Bhopal [Nov 9, 2010] (13:19) Original post: http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/486751.html “Kids in this Indian city play cricket to try to escape the squalor around them, but the fields where they play have a deadly past.” November 14, 2010
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Dow’s attempt to deceive NDTV: notes for editors
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but…
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Dec 1: New Report Shows High Levels of Toxic Chemicals Still Found in Bhopal Drinking Water
New Report Released Today Shows High Levels of Toxic Chemicals Still Found in Bhopal Drinking Water 25th Anniversary of Bhopal Chemical Disaster Prompts Over 150 Actions Around the World Amnesty International, Yes Men and Students Groups Globally Call on Dow Chemical and Indian Government to Clean Up Toxic Groundwater As Thousands Still Face Birth Defects,…
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NYTimes: Poisoned Water Haunts Bhopal 25 Years After Deadly Accident — Report
NY Times: Poisoned Water Haunts Bhopal 25 Years After Deadly Accident — Report By SARA GOODMAN of Greenwire – Published: December 1, 2009 Twenty-five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities —…
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US Congressmen tell Dow to clean up Bhopal
Ranjit Devraj, IPS, June 18, 2009 A campaign in the United States led by two girl victims from Bhopal, highlighting lingering toxicity left behind by the 1984 gas disaster in their city, has paid off with a group of 27 members of the U.S. Congress asking Dow Chemicals to clean up the site. Sarita and…
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100 children rally against Gas Relief Minister Gaur
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action November 17, 2008 *Press Statement* Over a hundred children from the communities near the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal today set fire to an effigy of the Minister for Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and…
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"Right to Live" dharna: parents of babies born malformed due to Carbide's poisons demand the children should receive free medical care
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aaawaaz February 25, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a press conference in Bhopal today, parents of 14 children born with congenital abnormalities attributable to exposure to Union Carbide’s poisons demanded free medical care for…