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
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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
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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 »
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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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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Survivor Deaths Under-reported As the peak of the second wave of Covid infections in Bhopal begins to pass, we are still waiting to find out the true extent of the tragedy it has wrought on Bhopal’s
Gas Survivors up to 50% of Bhopal’s Covid Casualties Read More »
On Tuesday, November 24th, four survivor organisations in Bhopal held a press conference to announce that the disproportionately high death rate of survivors in Bhopal from Covid-19 shows that survivors’ injuries from gas exposures were not
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The plight of the survivors of the 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal has received significant press coverage this month after a report from survivor organisations on June 11th revealed that more than 75% of Covid-19 victims
Covid-19 Update: Bhopal in the Press Read More »
In our last coronavirus update we reported that the first seven people to die of Covid-19 in Bhopal were all survivors of the 1984 gas disaster. As of today, the total death toll stands at 15,
Coronavirus Update: Government Adopts Action Plan Read More »
According to the latest news from the Bhopal Group for Information and Action in Bhopal, the first seven people to die of Covid-19 in the city were all survivors of the 1984 gas disaster. This fact,
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The Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR) has now submitted its latest report, regarding the contamination of groundwater in Bhopal communities, to the apex committee of the Supreme Court. The report confirms excessive levels of nitrate,
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