Amnesty Bhopal

Amnesty Bhopal is the divisional section of the international organization that fights for the human rights of the people of Bhopal. The organization especially fights for the people who were affected in the gas tragedy occurred the year 1984. The Amnesty International is an organization that has contributed in evaluating the situation of the people in the city after the gas tragedy. The reports of the organization highlight the encroachment of the rights of the people by the business organizations in the city.

The international organization believes that the business and industrial organizations are legally and morally more indebted to protect the rights of the people of the organization and the city. The organization promotes the respect of the rights of the people by the business community. 7000 people of the city of Bhopal had faced instant death being choked by the leak of the toxic gas in the Bhopal gas tragedy. The number of death has risen to more than 15000 in the past 20 years. However, the Union Carbide Corporation along with the Dow Chemical Company, which has merged with the former pesticide company, has denied responsibility of compensation to the effected people. The government has also failed to secure the proper rehabilitation of the people and the region. The report of the international organization urges the government and the people to demand prompt redress.

The Amnesty Bhopal is still making continuous efforts in gaining the adequate compensation for the effected people of the city of Bhopal. The organization is still working to accomplish the social and economical rehabilitation of the people who faced devastation in the gas tragedy twenty years earlier.