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Barbara Dinham

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  Communities in peril: global report on health impacts of pesticide use in agriculture

  This new report by PAN-AP reveals that hazardous pesticides are commonly used in unsafe situations around the world, and calls for assertive action by corporations, governments and international bodies to address pesticide hazards.

  • 01/06/2010

  • Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific
  • • Agriculture
    • Pesticides
    • Health Effects
    • Pesticides And Toxins
    • Pesticide Use
    • Pesticide Poisoning
    • India
    • Global
    • Barbara Dinham
    • Penang
    • Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific

• The Bhopal gas tragedy 1984 to? The evasion of corporate responsibility

  This paper describes the inadequacies in the response of the Union Carbide Corporation to the accidental release of the highly toxic gas, methyl isocyanate, from its plant in Bhopal, India in 1984. Over 20,000 people are estimated to have died from exposure to this gas since 1984, with some 120,000 chronically ill survivors. Union Carbide fought to avoid compensation or to keep it very low.

  • 02/04/2002

  • Environment & Urbanisation
  • • Environment
    • Health Effects
    • Compensation
    • Industrial Disasters
    • Bhopal Gas Disaster
    • Methyl Isocyanate (MIC)
    • Union Carbide
    • Groundwater Pollution