Bhopal disaster and aftermath a huge violation of human rights: Amnesty
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Tens of thousands of Indian people still suffer appalling effects from the Bhopal gas leak 20 years ago and over 20,000 have died from the disaster, Amnesty International says, labelling the victims' long wait for justice a major breach of human rights.
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BEIJING -- China's human rights record has deteriorated in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, with thousands of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty International said yesterday.
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Powerful governments and armed groups are spreading fear to divert attention from human rights abuses, exacerbating polarization in an increasingly dangerous world, Amnesty International said yesterday in its annual assessment of rights worldwide.
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Human rights group Amnesty International warns of a dramatic rise in threats to journalists in Sri Lanka.
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The legacy from environmental irresponsibility still hangs heavily over the city of Bhopal in India. Two decades after the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster, the site still needs to be cleaned up.
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An Indian company plans to burn toxic waste from the city of Bhopal, the site of the world's worst industrial disaster, despite environmentalists' objections.
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BHOPAL, India -- Civil rights activists, survivors, and other protesters converged on Bhopal this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident and demand justice for hundreds of thousands of people still suffering in the aftermath.
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Two decades after a leak sent clouds of lethal gas into the homes of hundreds of thousands of poor Indians, the world has failed to either help the victims or punish the culprits, Amnesty International says.
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AHMEDABAD, India  - Five years after their loved ones were brutally killed and they were forced to flee, thousands of Muslim victims of one of India's worst religious riots have pleaded for help to return home.
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Israel is guilty of severe human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including âwanton destructionâ of houses and infrastructure, according to a new United Nations report.
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The nation's meat packing industry has such bad working conditions that it violates basic human and worker rights, said Human Rights Watch.
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Twenty years later, Union Carbide is still shortchanging the victims of the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster. On Dec. 3, 1984, a toxic gas leak from Union Carbide&#39;s pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, killed at least 7,000 people.
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More than 570,000 victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in central India are finally to receive compensation. The Indian Supreme Court has approved a compensation plan it ordered the state welfare commission to draw up in July.
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A group of activists on Friday delivered to Dow Chemical a container of poisoned well water from the Bhopal gas disaster site to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst industrial accident in India.
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Amnesty said that mass rape and sexual violence during times of conflict put women at a much greater risk of contracting the disease.
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BHOPAL, India A massive protest is set for tomorrow to mark the 20th anniversary of the world&#39;s worst industrial accident in Bhopal, India.
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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Bhopal, India demanding justice after the world&#39;s worst industrial accident 20 years ago.