This year marks 40 years since the world’s worst industrial disaster claimed the lives of thousands of people, and continues to impact more than half a million. Justice remains elusive for the survivors of the Bhopal disaster in India, who are living with the impacts of an unprecedented chemical leak from a plant run by Union Carbide Corporation in 1984.
Union Carbide is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, which has refused to properly compensate victims and conduct a thorough clean-up. Amnesty International, which has been documenting the disaster for years, has just released a new report called “Bhopal: 40 Years of Injustice.” Mark Dummett, head of business and human rights at Amnesty International, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the report and its recommendations.