Global: Dow shareholders must help ensure justice for victims of Bhopal disaster

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Global: Dow shareholders must help ensure justice for victims of Bhopal disaster

Amnesty International is urging shareholders in the US-based Dow to consider withdrawing their investment from the chemicals company if it fails to rapidly meet its human rights responsibilities towards the more than 500,000 people still suffering from the Bhopal disaster, one of the world’s worst industrial incidents.Ahead of the company’s annual general meeting tomorrow 11 April, Amnesty International has written to Dow’s largest investors, sh…