The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) is a coalition of disaster survivors and environmental, social justice, progressive Indian, and human rights groups that have joined forces to hold the Indian Government and Dow Chemical Corporation accountable for the ongoing chemical
disaster in Bhopal.
Stated mission
* To ensure adequate health care and rehabilitation for the survivors (and their children) of the Bhopal Disaster.
* To achieve a safe environment in
Bhopal
Bhopal (; ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes'' due to its various natural and artificial lakes. It i ...
by proper remediation.
* To bring to trial those charged with crimes, and secure heavy punishment of the guilty.
* To pressure the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, Union Carbide's current owner the
Dow Chemical
The Dow Chemical Company, officially Dow Inc., is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. The company is among the three largest chemical producers in the world.
Dow manufactures plastics ...
Company to realize these aims.
Beliefs
# The
Precautionary Principle
The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) is a broad epistemological, philosophical and legal approach to innovations with potential for causing harm when extensive scientific knowledge on the matter is lacking. It emphasizes caut ...
# The
Polluter Pays Principle
In environmental law, the polluter pays principle is enacted to make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment. It is regarded as a regional custom because of the strong supp ...
# The
Right to Know
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International Liability
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Environmental Justice
Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...
Aims
* To bring
Warren Anderson to criminal court in India.
* To bring
Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical corporation wholly owned subsidiary (since February 6, 2001) by Dow Chemical Company. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers befor ...
Corporation to criminal court in India in the
corporate person
A juridical person is a non-human legal person that is not a single natural person but an organization recognized by law as a fictitious person such as a corporation, government agency, NGO or International (inter-governmental) Organization (such ...
of Dow Chemical which acquired Union Carbide in 2001.
* To get Dow Chemical to
** pay further compensation to the Bhopal Disaster victims;
** pay for the long term health care of the Bhopal Disaster survivors;
** release any medical information about the released gases that they hold as
trade secret
Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that includes formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic value because they are not generally known or readily asc ...
s;
** pay for the environmental clean-up of the
*** abandoned plant;
*** surrounding land;
*** ground water; and
*** local drinking water supplies;
** provide clean & safe drinking water to communities with polluted water.
Bibliography
Further reading
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* {{cite book , author=Upendra Baxi , title=Mass Disasters and Multinational Liability: The Bhopal Case , location=India , publisher=NM Tripathi , year= 1986
External links
ICJB ArchiveBeyond Bhopal - The InquiryStudents for BhopalICJB U.S.
Bhopal disaster