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Source: The Guardian
by Anindita Sengupta
December 3, 2009
It’s 25 years since the world’s worst industrial disaster struck Bhopal, a town in central India. On 3 December 1984, a toxic leak in Union Carbide Corporation’s factory unleashed 40 tonnes of lethal gas into the sleeping town. It killed 3,500 people instantly and an estimated 20,000 have died [...]

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Dos relatores de Naciones Unidas lanzan sendas propuestas para aplicar la justicia universal también a las corporaciones

por Pere Rusiñol
24 de agosto, 2009
Los directivos de Shell decidieron hace un par de meses pagar 11 millones de euros por la muerte de nueve activistas ogonis que en 1995 protestaban por la actividad de la compañía petrolera en [...]

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The Hiroshima of the chemical industry is still claiming victims – babies born 25 years later with serious birth defects
by Billy Briggs
July 12, 2009
BHOPAL – Unable to steer safely in the mud, the driver of our rickshaw pulls into the side of the road to allow us to take shelter from torrential rain. There, [...]

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