Bhopal Disaster
EDM number 187 in 2009-10, proposed by Timothy Farron on 24/11/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Industrial health and safety and Emergencies and disaster management.
That this House remembers with sadness and outrage the tragedy that took place in Bhopal, India, resulting from the leak of thousands of tonnes of chemicals in December 1984; admonishes the Indian government for its negligence in failing to clean up the chemical waste following the disaster; highlights with great sadness the thousands of lives lost directly after the leak and in the 20 years after and the 100,000 people continuing to suffer from health problems from contaminated water supplies and daily exposure to chemicals; and calls on the Indian government to act immediately to end this injustice and clean up the area so that local people can be free from this suffering and distress.
This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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