Here is something for legal eagles of the government of India to chew on: while Dow Chemical Company denies any responsibility for damages caused by Union Carbide in Bhopal, it has taken over all liability of Carbide for fighting out over 75,000 asbestos related law suits in the US. Dow/Carbide expects to incur liability costs [...]
On the night of December 3, 1984, 22 year old Kumkum Saxena sat in her home atop Idgah hill in Bhopal studying for a neurology exam the next day. The phone rang. Hysterical voices talked about a chemical leak, pleading for help. “Oh God, they’ve done it again,” Saxena exclaimed. Chemical leaks were not new [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
At a press conference today four organizations of survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal condemned the Indian government’s “criminal negligence” in the prosecution of those accused of responsibility for the world’s worst corporate massacre. They said that as the Minister in charge of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Prime Minister [...]
Documents unearthed by Bhopal activists regarding the Empowered Commission on Bhopal (ECoB) through the RTI Act reveal substantial support for the Commission among various relevant ministries. Despite the support, though, nothing has moved toward formation of the Commission. This release is the first in a two part series on the Empowered Commission based on documents [...]
Press Statement August 6th, 2009 Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action While welcoming the Bhopal court’s order to the Indian Government to renew efforts to produce Warren Anderson, survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal today said Anderson [...]
March 6, 2009 – 125 Bhopal survivors descend upon the Prime Minister’s Office in Delhi to file RTI requests concerning efforts to fulfil promises regarding the Empowered Commission on Bhopal
One hundred and twenty five survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal today filed applications for information at the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Braving objections of over 100 armed policemen, the survivors sought information on steps taken towards fulfillment of the Prime Minister’s [...]
10th Feb 2009, Chennai: A group of 75 Bhopalis, including 15 members of ‘Children against Dow –Carbide,’ were in Chennai for the ‘Justice Rocks Concert’. While hundreds of Chennai Youth hummed to the tune of “Don’t work for dirty Dow’, Bhopalis decided to have a protest right at Dow’s hideout in Chennai. And the preparations [...]
