3 December 2024 is the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy in India, the world’s deadliest industrial disaster, when a pesticide factory owned by Union Carbide exploded next to the community. It marks 40 years of women gas survivors confronting corporate crime and Dow Chemical — who took over the site but refuse to clean it up.
WinVisible is women with disabilities of all nationalities, including Indian, African and from many other countries, supporting the struggle in Bhopal since 1984, the year we began. We have supported campaigns concerning Bhopali women’s situation, mothers and children, against low pay of women stationery workers in government-run “sheltered” employment, by the young water-affected disabled survivors, and for the whole community.
We wholeheartedly support the 40th anniversary demands addressed to the US, the government of India and the government of Madhya Pradesh: for criminal justice, compensation, free medical care and research, jobs, housing, and to triple the meagre pension to women made widows by the disaster. Anti-corruption action and a genuine clean-up of the environment, NOT pouring concrete over the contaminated factory site and thus covering up for Dow Chemical.
Wed 4 December Zoom event organised by the Bhopal Medical Appeal (Brighton):
Candles in the Darkness: Bhopal at 40
More info — see next post.
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