CANDLELIGHT TRIBUTE TO BHOPAL’S UNION CARBIDE / DOW CHEMICAL GAS TRAGEDY VICTIMS BY CHINGARI’S CHILDREN On the eve of 1st December 2024, tribute to the martyrs of Bhopal Gas Tragedy was paid by the children of […]
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Poisons Continue to Drip Into Bhopal’s 40 Year Wound On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a Union Carbide pesticides factory in Bhopal, India, leaked a deadly cloud of methyl isocyanate gas as people slept. Thousands
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Following articles published in The Hindu and other news outlets towards the end of last year about water contamination in Bhopal caused by dumped toxic wastes at the abandoned Union Carbide factory site, the National Green
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Despite a decades old Indian Supreme Court ruling that free healthcare provision must be made for survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster at Government hospitals, survivors with cancer diagnoses have been struggling to find treatment
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Addressing a press conference on the occasion of the 39th Anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, members of the Sambhavna Trust clinic called for greater medical attention to continuing deaths and illnesses among survivors.
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Campaigns Coordinator The Bhopal Medical Appeal (the BMA) seeks to appoint a part-time intern to contribute to the charity’s mission and planning for the 40th anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster that took place in
Now Hiring: Campaigns Coordinator Intern! Read More »
On Tuesday, March 14th, the Supreme Court of India reconvened to hear the findings of the judge’s panel on the central government’s curative petition brought against Dow Chemical and its subsidiary Union Carbide for additional compensation
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On the evening of Friday, December 2nd, the night of the 38th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, more than 1,000 survivors boarded trains to Delhi to petition the Central Government to allow the survivor community
In Pictures: Survivors Travel to Delhi Read More »
On September 20th, 2022, the Government of India’s Bhopal Curative Petition, which seeks to reopen the civil settlement which it struck with Union Carbide in 1989, once again came up for hearing before the Supreme Court of
Legal Update: Indian Government Confirm Pursuit of Curative Petition Read More »
Today, May 11th, marks another development in the ongoing criminal trial pending against Union Carbide India Limited and its officials at the Bhopal chemical factory on the day of the gas disaster in 1984. Two factory
Hearing of Appeal to Overturn UCIL Criminal Convictions Read More »
On December 29th, 2020, Bhopal survivor groups wrote a letter to the Chief Minister of the Madhya Pradesh State Government requesting payment of pensions for 470 women widowed by the gas disaster. Under a State Government
Survivor Organisations Fight for Pensions for Widows Read More »
The Dow Chemical company and its subsidiary Union Carbide are the biggest single contributor to hot spots of toxic air pollution in the entire United States, according to studies conducted by ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that
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