Bhopal disaster: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date	December 3, 1984
Location	Bhopal • India • Madhya Pradesh
Participants	Union Carbide Corporation

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A group of women sit together at a protest in New Delhi, with one woman in front holding a pink sign reading 30 years is enough! Justice in Bhopal now.

Three seated women with cloth bandages over their eyes, victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, with several people and industrial buildings visible in the background.

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