AID &
ICJB
ICJB is a global coalition
of 20 environmental and social justice groups spearheaded by the women's
survivor group Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Karmachari Stationery Sangh.
Members include Bhopal Action Resource Center, USA, Bhopal Group for
Information and Action, Bhopal Information Network, Japan, The Other
Media, India, Environmental Health Fund,Boston, Corpwatch, Greenpeace
Intl., Ecology Center MI, Pesticide Action Network North America &
UK, Justice for Bhopal, Ann Arbor, Calhoun County Resource Watch.
Association for India's
Development is exploring the possibility to formally join ICJB.
Some key understandings
among the ICJB members.
1. Keep each other informed:
We'll consult and keep each other informed about planned activities,
media queries where time permits and requirement exists, and responses
from state or corporation.
2. "Bhopal survivors speak for themselves": Survivors and/or
their appointees will be the only persons who engage in discussions/dialogue
with Dow on the matter of Bhopal and its future.
3. All demands will be pushed as a package: Criminal liability, enviornmental
contamination, compensation, rehabilitation (economic, medical).
4. ALL Bhopal activities in the US and India (except those expressly
agreed upon in advance) will be done with the informed participation
of coalition members and in the name of International Campaign for
Justice in Bhopal. An ICJB letterhead with names of constituent members
will be prepared and circulated shortly. All
public communications (media advisories, invitations, press releases)
for India/US activities on Bhopal will go out in this name listing
all constituent members.
5. Activities in other countries, such as the Raghu Rai photo exhibit
tour in Europe, that require the participation, involvement or has
taken the assistance of more than one coalition member will also be
conducted in the name of the International Campaign for Justice in
Bhopal.
6. Activities by ICJB members in countries other than India and US
that do not require the participation/involvement of other coalition
member(s) may be conducted in the name of the organisation
taking action. Kindly acknowledge the existence of the International
Campaign for Justice in Bhopal in the press release, public material
etc to convey that the Bhopal issue has the backing of a wide variety
of
international organisations.
