Zubeda Hamid, Indian Express, December 17, 2008 CHENNAI: A group of children from Bhopal, suffering from disablities caused gas leak from Union Carbide in 1984, have appealed to a private trust here to disassociate itself from Dow Chemicals, which now owns the firm. Adinath Jain Trust is holding a five-day camp to distribute Jaipur foots, [...]
Founder and chief patron of the Mahavir Viklang Sewa Samiti, DR Mehta, is a man rightly lauded for bringing free prosthetic limbs to the poor and destitute of India and elsewhere. A former IAS officer of impeccable credentials, it’s hard to imagine why a man synonymous with the famous ‘Jaipur Foot’ would be striving to [...]
PRESS RELEASE Children Against Dow-Carbide member Sarita talks to Mohan Jain, whose trust partners the Jaipur-based Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayog Samiti(BMVSS) in its Jaipur Foot work along with sponsor Dow India CHENNAI, 17 DECEMBER, 2008 – Five second-generation victims of Dow Chemical’s contamination in Bhopal are in Chennai to urge Chennai-based Adinath Jain Trust and [...]
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (Chennai) Press Release CHENNAI, 13 December, 2008 – Five Bhopali children affected by Union Carbide’s poisons, including three with visible deformities, are visiting Chennai from 16 to 19 December to urge the organisations that are promoting the famous “Jaipur Foot” to dissociate themselves with Dow Chemical (India) and Union [...]
Chennai, December 7th, 2008 Indian Express report (large file) We had everything in place; every little detail worked out. Things were in place. The “No More Bhopals” concert was to happen on 7th December. And on 6th December, we were ready to go. After tiring of trying to be organised, we decided it would be [...]
Latha Jishnu, Business Standard, December 06, 2008 India’s worst terrorist attack occurred not in Mumbai last month, but in Bhopal 24 years ago – and it’s the kind of carnage that goes unheeded. What determines the gravity and enormity of an outrage? Is it the number of casualties? Is it the brutality with which the [...]
Cuddalore, 3 December 2008: Residents of the pollution impacted region of SIPCOT Cuddalore, along with residents of Old Town Cuddalore, organised several public meets and vigils on Dec 2 and 3rd to remember Bhopal. Candle light vigil at Semmankuppam Middle School: Semmankuppam is the village in SIPCOT where Chemplast Sanmar’s 1,70,000 TPA PVC plant is [...]
Central Chronicle, December 4, 2008 Bhopal, Dec 3: Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy today mourned their kith and kin, who had a silent death following leakage of about 40 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate from the Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) pesticide plant here on this day 24 years ago. Several Non Government Organisations [...]
The Pioneer, December 4, 2008 Bhubaneswar: On the No Pesticides Use Day to commemorate the 24th year of the Bhopal gas tragedy which left nearly 8,000 people dead and affected 5,20,000 others, a city-based organisation Living Farms, fighting pesticides, at a discussion on the Bhopal tragedy held here on Wednesday, pointed out that there are [...]
New Delhi, 2nd Dec 2008 Read today’s press release At times like this, when innocent people were being killed in a horrendous attack in Bombay, detoxification of our society and our lives takes on a deeper meaning. When Delhi-ites gathered for the 24th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, our goal was to participate in the [...]
