Leaders of the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmchari Sangh (BGPMSKS) a trade union of women survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, have announced their victory in a 23 year long legal battle for parity […]
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Press Release At a press conference today, leaders of the five organizations of survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal charged the Madhya Pradesh government with criminal neglect in providing clean drinking water to neighbourhood
US multinational The Dow Chemical Company (TDCC) has been issued with a summons(1), after a hearing of the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Bhopal, India, requesting it explain why it does not produce its’ wholly owned
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On June 27th 2013 the U.S. Second Circuit Appeals Court affirmed a District Court order granting summary judgment to Union Carbide Corporation in the civil action Sahu v. UCC, which began in 2004. The action sought
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On the 19th October 2012 the High Court in Madhya Pradesh ruled the lift of the stay against summoning of The Dow Chemical Company in the criminal case of the 1984 gas disaster. Friday’s lift
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The Supreme Court in Delhi today has been told by scientists today that ground water from the former pesticide plant is dangerously contaminated and not fit for human consumption. The Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR)
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Anger in India as leaked documents reveal that fugitive Union Carbide continues to trade Leaked documents and company emails between the management of the Dow Chemical company allegedly reveal that the American corporation is knowingly and
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The government is not keen to change the classification of victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy in its curative petition before the Supreme Court and allow higher compensation for thousands or admit to a higher number
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NHRC issues notices to the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh Government on allegations of unethical drug trials on Bhopal gas victims New Delhi, August 9th, 2011 The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC has taken cognizance of
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Warren Anderson (left), the chief of Union Carbide, had proposed a settlement within weeks of the gas leak. More skeletons relating to the handling of the Bhopal gas tragedy are tumbling out of the Indian government’s
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The State of Maharashtra has filed an intervention application in the ongoing dispute pending before the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, on the issue of transportation and disposal of radioactive Bhopal gas tragedy waste. The radioactive
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The commission has been urged to hold companies operating in the EU legally accountable for any “harm” they cause to people and the environment around the world. The demand is made in a petition signed by
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