On December 2nd, 2021, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster held a series of protests across the city that lasted throughout the day and into the evening. They marched with banners and flaming torches and […]
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On the evening of December 2nd, staff and volunteers from the Sambhavna clinic held a candlelit vigil outside the Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal to mark the 37th anniversary of the disaster. Arranging a flower
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On the evening of November 30th, 2021, staff and trustees of the Chingari Trust, together with children receiving treatment at the clinic and their families, held a small candlelit vigil at Neelam Park to mark the
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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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K V Shetty, superintendent at the Union Carbide Corporation factory in Bhopal on the night of the gas leak in 1984, died last month aged 80. Shetty was one of 8 Indian officials accused of criminal
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Local authorities in Bhopal have intervened to prevent the sale of 3,000kg of water chestnuts harvested from a local pond used as a dumping ground for toxic waste after activist groups reported the issue, according to
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On September 16, the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered the State Government to provide free cancer treatment to gas survivors with cancer at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhopal. The order is
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In an interview this morning with the Times of India, Bhopal Survivor Groups reported that data gathered during the pandemic shows nearly 40% of those who have so far died from Covid-19 in the city were
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On Thursday September 2nd, staff and volunteers at Sambhavna celebrated the 25th anniversary of the clinic’s opening. Since 1996, Sambhavna has provided regular and ongoing treatment to more than 35,000 survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to update it’s rules surrounding ‘Risk Management Plans’ for hazardous chemical facilities, a change that may increase public awareness of unsafe or hazardous factories or chemical facilities in
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Survivor groups in Bhopal have voiced their opposition to the government’s plan to build a memorial to the victims of the gas tragedy in the grounds of the abandoned factory site, arguing a full assessment of
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A camp was held at the Sambhavna clinic to provide Covid-19 vaccines to gas survivors last Monday, June 21st. Organised by the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, the all-day drive saw hundreds of gas survivors receive their first
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