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1957: Dorothy Counts
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Bhopal disaster
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On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in
World Press Photo of the Year
…following a devastating earthquake in the vicinity of Erzurum and Kars, Zinnet Avcı finds her four children buried alive. Image 1985 Pablo Bartholomew Bhopal disaster The body of a child, killed in a chemical accident at the plant of US chemical company Union Carbide Corporation, is buried. Image 1986 Frank Fournier…
The Bhopal pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited in 1985, a year after the disaster
Tank E610 in 2010. During the decontamination of the plant, the tank was removed from its foundations and set aside.
Memorial to those killed and disabled in Bhopal by Dutch Holocaust survivor Ruth Waterman-Kupferschmidt
Victims of the Bhopal disaster march in September 2006, demanding the extradition of Warren Anderson from the United States.