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International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

San Francisco, California

Cause Description:
On December 3rd, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. More than 150,000 people were left severely disabled - of whom 22,000 have since died of their injuries - in a disaster now widely acknowledged as the world’s worst-ever industrial disaster. Today, twenty five years after the Bhopal disaster, at least 100,000 people are too sick to work for a living, and a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirmed that the children of gas-affected parents are themselves afflicted by Carbide’s poison. The chemicals that Carbide abandoned in and around their Bhopal factory have contaminated the drinking water of 25,000 people.

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