See also the “Narmada” section.
On the night of December 2, 1984, unknown poisonous gases (released by the runaway reaction of water with methyl isocyanate, or MIC) burst out from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located in a densely populated, working poor vicinity of the city of Bhopal in central India. The plant, scheduled (...)
For the survivors of the Bhopal gas leak, today, Human Rights Day, is yet another day to confront the myriad wrongs of thirty years of corporate criminality and apathetic governance.
On 3 December 1984, tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate (MIC) and other chemicals leaked from the factory of the (...)
A selection of commentary and articles in the media by the South Asia Citizens Wire.
Bhopal’s Deadly Legacy
The New York Times, December 4, 2014
by The Editorial Board
It’s been called the worst industrial accident in history, and it’s not over. Thirty years ago, during the wee hours of Dec. (...)
Nobody has made a greater contribution to building such a grassroots movement than Medha Patkar who turns 60 on December 1st. Patkar is best known globally as the leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, one of the world’s greatest ecological mass mobilisations. She is also the founder of the (...)
PRESS RELEASE
DATE: 30 October 2014
We, activists of Gujarat oppose ‘Statue of Unity’ because it is in fact a ‘Statue for Tourism Industries’, a ‘Statue for Narendra Modi’s Name and Fame’ and ‘Statue for Criminal Waste of Public Money’.
Not a ‘Statue of Unity’ but a ‘Statue of Disunity’ that removes (...)
Greenpeace responds to the leaked IB Report that Greenpeace and other NGOs have impacted India’s GDP by 3%.
We wrote to the MHA requesting to see a copy of the official IB report but so far have not received it. Last night a report claiming to be the IB report was leaked on a web portal and (...)
A warmer world may be leading to a delayed withdrawal of the Indian monsoon, hitting crop yield and affecting the livelihoods of small farmers and agricultural workers.
The joys of a bountiful southwest monsoon are increasingly changing to anxiety as the rains unseasonally drag on in many (...)
CORPORATE media’s coverage of the havoc caused by the cloud burst in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh has largely concentrated on two aspects. The first has been on the plight of the tourists and pilgrims in these regions and the government’s “inability to provide adequate relief.” The second has (...)
STATEMENT ON THE UTTARAKHAND CATASTROPHE
We cannot ignore the climate crisis anymore!
25 June 2013
The India Climate Justice collective notes with deep anguish the devastating loss of life, livelihoods, and homes in Uttarakhand and beyond. The death toll is likely in the thousands, way (...)
Today Darjeeling looks like Solan, Solan like Kausali, Mussoorie like Ghaziabad. The long arm of Indian commerce has invaded every unique setting, and left a trail of devastation in its wake.
Once while designing a hotel in the mountains of Uttarakhand, I had proposed using local pine for (...)
In demonstrations barely reported in the media, peasants and students in the Northeastern Indian state of Assam are fighting together against a proposed gargantuan network of dams across the upper reaches of its rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world’s six most seismically active regions. (...)
India is set to get a new environment protection framework wherein national institutions will frame and monitor zonal disaster management plans to be implemented by the state governments. The new framework is aimed at reducing burden of district magistrates in environmental regulation and has (...)
On June 29, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with the editors of a few newspapers.
When asked about whether he had been putting pressure on the environment ministry (then headed by Jairam Ramesh) to overlook environmental violations of several projects, Dr Singh said yes, and justified his (...)
Ramesh Agrawal and Harihar Patel exposed irregularities in the environmental clearance process for a coal fired thermal power plant being built by the Jindal group in Raigarh. In return, they have been arrested on false charges. Their first two appeals for bail have been denied. A third bail (...)
India has given up putting any pressure on industrialised countries to tackle climate change at Cancun, in order to defend their right to an economy based on high growth, environmental destruction, and luxury consumption for a small elite.
Nick Buxton – What do you think of the results of (...)
The government of Kerala state on 14 July 2010 has set up a Plachimada Claims Tribunal to realize compensation US $ 46.2 million from Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Company for the ecological damages it caused in Plachimada, Kerala.
The tribunal will adjudicate disputes relating to compensation (...)
A Statement of Radical Socialist
• On the night of December 2-3 , 1984, the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal released methyl isocyanate and other toxins. The result was some 500,000 people were affected. Government agencies estimate that over 15000 people died. After 26 (...)
More than 25 years after the infamous Bhopal Gas Disaster, a trial court in Bhopal has delivered a verdict that is nothing but a cruel mockery of justice. Not only does the verdict insult the victims of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters by letting off the mighty CEOs who were the (...)
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
June 7, 2010
Terming today’s verdict and sentence against 7 officials of Union Carbide India Ltd., and the company an utter disappointment, Bhopal survivors today said they are resolved to challenge it in higher legal fora. “We feel outraged and (...)
On the night of December 2nd and the early morning of December 3rd 1984, some 40 tonnes of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) spewed out of the Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, exposing over 5,00,000 people to the toxic fumes. 25,000 people died as a result, hundreds of thousands of (...)
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