On Wednesday November 13, nearly 35 years to the day since the Bhopal Gas Disaster, Dow Chemical was summoned to appear in an Indian criminal court and explain the 27 year absence of its subsidiary Union Carbide. Just like […]
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The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has led the Bhopal Courts to proceed with a further application for serving notice on Dow to appear under the (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) MLAT on criminal matters. This
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On 31 August, 2017, a merger was completed between the Dow Chemical Company and DuPont to form a single, gargantuan chemical corporation. It was, at that time, the world’s largest. Known as DowDuPont, it was worth
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A crisis in the Supreme Court of India has seen the survivors left in limbo as meetings of the Constitution Bench have been postponed in the wake of a scandal involving the Chief Justice of India.
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Is the forthcoming Curative Petition the last chance for the survivors of the Bhopal Disaster to get adequate and fair compensation? The International Campaign for justice in Bhopal (ICJB) certainly thinks so and has launched a
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At a press conference today, leaders of four organisations of survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster called upon central and state governments to revise the figures of death and illness caused by the disaster before the
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Thirty years ago today, a ‘settlement’ was made for the Bhopal Disaster. There was no consultation with its survivors. Union Carbide paid $470m dollars, which represented an absolute pittance when shared out among survivor, with most
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On Monday, 28 January, the Supreme Court in Delhi finally agreed to hear the central government’s (GoI) curative petition calling for increased compensation to victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster from the successor firms of Union
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Registration Statements for the New Dow do not Reveal Potential Bhopal Liabilities After the 2017 merger of the Dow Chemical Company with DuPont Nemours, a vast chemical company, known as DowDuPont, was formed. In September 2018,
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‘The world is against them’: new era of cancer lawsuits threaten Monsanto & other glyphosate manufacturers including Dow Chemical According to the Guardian: “In an historic verdict in August, a jury ruled that Monsanto had caused
Over the years, BMA has been involved in a number of resolution campaigns targeting the shareholders of Dow Chemical, and this year of DowDuPont, at their annual AGM. We believe that the Bhopal issue by itself
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At a press conference, held on August 1, the combined groups representing survivors of the 1984 Gas Disaster protested a proposed suspension of the Bhopal Gas Relief Department and asked the government to clear its position
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