An important hearing, which could reopen the case against Union Carbide Corporation and possibly even reopen the controversial and inadequate 1989 settlement, is taking place in India’s apex court. In a series of daily despatches Shalini Sharma, a PhD student at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, guides us through the proceedings, summarising [...]
To the Chairman, MP Pollution Control Board, Paryavaran Parisar, E-5, Arera Colony, Bhopal 462 016 Sub: Personal and Organizational Responsibility for Toxic Injury to six workers at the MP Waste Management Project, Pithampur, Dhar on June 25, 2010. Sir, We survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal and people exposed to ground [...]
Press Statement Calling the Group of Minister’s offer of compensation a smokescreen, all seven organizations for survivors’ rights have strongly condemned the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on Bhopal. The Group of Ministers pretends to offer relief and rehabilitation but the details reveal that issues of compensation, rehabilitation and corporate liability are totally ignored. [...]
Our thanks to Shobhan Saxena, for sending us this piece he wrote for his column in The Times of India. ––––––––––––– Because the line between democracy and manipulation is very thin, at times it becomes blurred. Today, this line dissolved completely as the Group of Ministers (GoM) reportedly recommended a number of steps to cool [...]
June 17, 2010. Seven Bhopal survivors’ organisations today sent a letter to the Group of Ministers on Bhopal (GoM), the group of ministers set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to co-ordinate response to the ongoing disaster. The full text of the letter can be read here. The letter presents the consensus reached by the [...]
NDTV (New Delhi Television) one of India’s prime news channels, yesterday received a letter from Dow spokesman Scott Wheeler claiming that the case to hold Dow responsible for cleaning up Bhopal had been concocted by “activists”. “There are some,” Wheeler wrote, “who continue to try to affix responsibility for the Bhopal tragedy to Dow, but [...]
PRASENJIT BOSE The Report of the US India CEO Forum titled “US-India Strategic Economic Partnership”, which was released during the recent Bush visit, has not attracted much media attention in contrast to the hype over the nuclear deal. The CEO Forum was formed during the Visit of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the US [...]
They must be gone because things that appal the rest of us, you seem not to see. You are blind to the agonies of 100,000 people who are still sick in Bhopal 25 years after Union Carbide’s gases leaked there. Blind to report after report recording the presence of pesticides and heavy metals in soil [...]
On June 14, 2010 members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and of Kids for a Better Future spoke to media and attempted to hand-delivered copies of a warrant and criminal charges against Union Carbide Corporation and against its former CEO, Warren Anderson (who remains in hiding), to the offices of their attorneys, [...]
INDUSTRY, IMPARTIALITY, INTEGRITY, says the badge of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the national equivalent of America’s FBI. Not according to its former Joint Director B. R. Lall, who was the senior officer in charge of the Bhopal investigation from April 1994 to July 1995. Lall, clearly nettled by criticisms that his organisation neglected [...]
