CANDLELIGHT TRIBUTE TO BHOPAL’S UNION CARBIDE / DOW CHEMICAL GAS TRAGEDY VICTIMS BY CHINGARI’S CHILDREN On the eve of 1st December 2024, tribute to the martyrs of Bhopal Gas Tragedy was paid by the children of
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Poisons Continue to Drip Into Bhopal’s 40 Year Wound On the night of December 2nd, 1984, a Union Carbide pesticides factory in Bhopal, India, leaked a deadly cloud of methyl isocyanate gas as people slept. Thousands
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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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On September 20th, 2022, the Government of India’s Bhopal Curative Petition, which seeks to reopen the civil settlement which it struck with Union Carbide in 1989, once again came up for hearing before the Supreme Court of
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On June 23rd 2022, The Bhopal Group for Information and Action (BGIA) wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee formed by the Supreme Court of India for provision of clean water to residents
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As of last Thursday, February 3rd, it was 30 years to the day since Warren Anderson, former Chairman of Union Carbide Coporation (UCC), and 11 others named as offenders in the Bhopal gas disaster by the
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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
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On December 2nd, 2021, survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster held a series of protests across the city that lasted throughout the day and into the evening. They marched with banners and flaming torches and
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On the evening of December 2nd, staff and volunteers from the Sambhavna clinic held a candlelit vigil outside the Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal to mark the 37th anniversary of the disaster. Arranging a flower
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The Dow Chemical company and its subsidiary Union Carbide are the biggest single contributor to hot spots of toxic air pollution in the entire United States, according to studies conducted by ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that
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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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