Bhopal Survivors Continue 40-Year Fight for Justice

Apr 19, 2024

This year marks 40 years since the world鈥檚 worst industrial disaster claimed the lives of of people, and continues to impact . Justice remains elusive for the survivors of the , who are living with the impacts of an unprecedented chemical leak from a plant run by Union Carbide Corporation in 1984.聽

Union Carbide is now a , which has refused to properly compensate victims and conduct a thorough clean-up. , which has been documenting the disaster for years, has just released a new report called .鈥� 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.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.