FIVE QUESTIONS TO THE CHIEF MINISTER OF MADHYA PRADESH ABOUT TOXIC CHEMICALS IN THE SOIL AND WATER IN AND AROUND THE UNION CARBIDE FACTORY, BHOPAL [translated from the original Hindi] Date : 22.06.2005 Question 1. In the case of death of cattle from poisonous water from Union Carbide factory in 1982, you had played the [...]

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz June 20, 2005, PRESS STATEMENT Four organizations working among the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster will present their complaints before the Chairman of the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on [...]

Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz June 19, 2005 PRESS STATEMENT Leaders of four organizations working among the survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster this afternoon led a march of over 200 neighbourhood residents into the [...]

AS 35 YEAR NOORJEHAN LIES IN HOSPITAL WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, THE POLITICIAN CHARGED WITH HER WELFARE REPEATS BLAND ASSURANCES TO AN INCREDULOUS PRESS CORPS At 9.10 this morning the increasingly out-of-touch politician in charge of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, Mr Uma Shankar Gupta visited the Carbide factory accompanied by Alok [...]

BY NITYANAND JAYARAMAN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL, 2 p.m. (Bhopal time), 18 June, 2005 Pictures from today’s action, even the police are covering their faces, in one picture you can clearly see tar on the ground. More than 200 Bhopalis, led by survivors organisations, today entered the Union Carbide factory site [...]

Pictures of the ‘clean up’ here (high res images available) SECOND STAGE OF THE AUTHORITIES’ “CLEAN-UP”: MACHINES CREATE CHEMICAL POISON CLOUDS The contractor hired by the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board brings in machines and starts shifting dangerous chemicals with no protective clothing for workers. The company involved is Ramky Pharma City [India] Ltd of [...]

Press Statement from Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal ki Aawaaz In a press conference today, four organizations active on the issues of the Union Carbide December ’84 disaster in Bhopal opposed the surreptitious and unsafe manner in which the [...]