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Meredith Alexander who works for the charity ActionAid, has resigned from the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 to bring attention to the “toxic legacy” of Bhopal. She faced questioning by the redoubtable Jeremy Paxman on the TV programme Newsnight and made her case strongly, saying “I feel I was part of a lobby [...] Many powerful pharmaceutical drugs have been banned because of side effects that are often more serious than the treated condition. The recent announcement of a new range of cannabis-derived drugs recalls the work on medicinal plants at the Centre for Holistic Studies in Mumbai and later Nashik. Porton Down-based GW Pharmaceuticals, which is described [...] Published today on a sister site in UK The saga of injustice in Vietnam, Bhopal and other countries continues to unfold. Almost thirty years since the Bhopal gas leak at its pesticide plant in India killed an estimated 25,000 people, the death toll continues to rise. In the Huffington Post (UK) Lorraine Close, [...] An article by Devinder Sharma in the Deccan Herald was written after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed shock and disgust, terming malnutrition a ‘national shame’. The opening paragraph ends: “The bigger shame of course is that it took the Prime Minister 7 years in office to feel concerned at the extent of ‘malnutrition’ [...] |
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