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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL. NETWORKING AND ADVOCACY LG II. BACKGROUND. DECEMBER 3, 1984: Shortly after midnight, poison gas leaked from a factory in Bhopal, India, owned by Union Carbide Corporation.

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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL

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  1. INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE IN BHOPAL NETWORKING AND ADVOCACY LG II

  2. BACKGROUND • DECEMBER 3, 1984: Shortly after midnight, poison gas leaked from a factory in Bhopal, India, owned by Union Carbide Corporation. • There was no warning; none of the plant's safety systems were working. In the city people were sleeping. They woke in darkness to the sound of screams with the gases burning their eyes, noses and mouths. • Within hours thousands of dead bodies lay in the streets. • Twenty three years after the pollution episode, contamination continues to kill people in India • Third generation affected • Gas composition secret not revealed

  3. CAMPAIGNS Various campaigns conducted by: • Local NGOs • International Organisations • Individuals (Activists)

  4. EXTRADITION OF WARREN ANDERSON • Warren Anderson, Chairman of Union Carbide Corporation at the time of the 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal is summoned along with UCC to appear before a court in Bhopal to face criminal charges of culpable homicide. • Since 1992 he and the corporation have been refusing to appear and have been declared "absconders from justice". • A non-bailable warrant has been issued for his arrest. Belated efforts by the Government of India to extradite him from the US have been rejected by the US State Department. • Campaigns to bring Anderson to India to face trial

  5. JHADOO MARO DOW KO! • This glorious idea was devised in 2002 by the women survivors of Bhopal's bastis, caused major embarrassment to Dow executives around the globe. • CEO Michael Parker was jhadoo'd at a prestigious luncheon. • Dow's European CEO fled from the broom of Champa Devi. • Mysterious beings turned up in remote Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England. All were demanding that Dow accept responsibility for Bhopal.

  6. HUNGER STRIKES: FASTING FOR JUSTICE • The hunger strike has been used effectively by the Bhopal survivors and their allies. • The first major fast was in 2002. It begand with three people, was taken up by another in the USA and grew into a rolling hunger strike involving more than 1,000 people around the world.  • 1) THE DELHI DHARNA • 2) THE SEADRIFT HUNGER STRIKE BY DIANE WILSON • 3) THE WORLDWIDE HUNGER STRIKE

  7. HUNGER STRIKES: FASTING FOR JUSTICE The hunger strikers around the world strongly demand that: • The Government of India withdraw its application for dilution of charges before the 17 July hearings at the Bhopal Magistrates court and take immediate steps to extradite Warren Anderson. • The Government of India act rapidly to hold Dow Chemicals, Carbides new owner, responsible for the pending medical and environmental rehabilitation liabilities in Bhopal. • Dow Chemicals take full responsibility for Union Carbide’s liabilities in Bhopal

  8. PROVISION OF CLEAN WATER • Highly toxic chemicals abandoned by Union Carbide at its derelict factory have leaked into soil and groundwater. • Cancer- and birth-defect causing chemicals have been found in drinking wells and women in nearby communities have poisons in their breast milk. • There were campaigns for clean water to be supplied to these communities.

  9. COMPENSATION FOR SURVIVORS • Thousands of people have been wrongfully denied compensation for injuries due to the gas disaster. • The gas victims that have been compensated have often received inadequate compensation through a process that’s often humiliating. • The children of the gas victims, who are themselves genetically affected by the gas, are not even tracked • The ICJB has campaigned for these funds to be released to survivors, to whom it belongs.

  10. 3-DAY SOLIDARITY FAST FOR BHOPAL OUTSIDE INDIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON DC • NRIs Urge Acceptance of the Demands of the Bhopali Survivors on Hunger-Strike. • Solidarity fasts by over 10 volunteers with Association for India’s Development and Students for Bhopal was held in front of the Indian Embassy for 3 days

  11. INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CONFRONT DOW CEO • The protestors held a banner “DOW clean up or shut up! Justice for Bhopal” which captures the irony of the CEO of Dow Chemicals, a company with a record of tarnishing the environment, preaching about energy and environment.

  12. MARCH TO DELHI: FOR JUSTICE AND DIGNITY IN BHOPAL • SET UP A NATIONAL COMMISSION ON BHOPAL • PROVIDE SAFE DRINKING WATER • PROSECUTE UNION CARBIDE AND ANDERSON • MAKE DOW CLEAN UP AND PAY • BLACKLIST DOW AND UNION CARBIDE

  13. POLICY CHANGES IN INDIA CAUSED BY THE CAMPAIGNS • Three key acts that dealt with industrial hazards were amended, i.e. the Factories Act (1948), the Water Act (1974 and 1977), and the Air Act (1981). • The Environmental Protection Act of 1986 was enacted • Established the principle of "strict and absolute liability" in the Shriram Food and Fertilizer Industries oleum leak case. • The Supreme Court also established the principle of "vicarious liability" • The Supreme Court began taking public interest litigation for environmental protection. • New administrative units were set up at the state level to monitor compliance of laws. • National Disaster Training College was also set up in Bhopal

  14. TIME LINE OF EVENTS AND OUTCOMES

  15. STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

  16. STAKEHOLDERS BHOPAL

  17. CURRENT SCENARIO FACTS AND FIGURES MEDICAL REHABILITATION (as on MAY 2007)

  18. ECONOMIC REHABILITATION (As on May,2007) • 152 Industrial Shed have been constructed. • 42 Work Shed have been constructed. • Industrial Training Institute have been established. • Rs.4.00 crores has been earmarked for economic rehabilitation of gas victims.  • Expenditure upto May, 2007 Rs.27.05 Crores

  19. SOCIAL REHABILITATION (As on May,2007) • Widow pension was provided to widows of the gas related deaths @ Rs.200/- p.m.  (Now it has been stopped) • 2486 houses has been constructed and allotted to Kith & Kin of Gas victims diseased  • 27 Orphans were maintained since 1984 to 2000 at present 3 orphans children were providing assistance. • Expenditure upto May, 2007 Rs.45.69 Crores

  20. ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION (As on May,2007) • plantation of trees • development of green belts and open areas • children’s park • construction and covering Nullahs • pavement of streets • construction of roads • construction of sewage/drainage • improvement of water supply schemes • development of open land • lighting of streets • disposal of wastes etc. • Supply of 9,000 smokeless choolahs • Expenditure upto May, 2007 Rs.28.55 Crores

  21. CLAIM AND COMPENSATION (As on March,2007)

  22. THANK YOU LG 2 ABHIROOP CHATTERJEE AMIT GARG PRASHANT SHARMA SANJEEV MOHAPATRA SIVAKUMAR KS

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