Victims’ advocacy organizations continue to demand fair compensation and criticize the tourist use of the factory 40 years after the tragedy. Some 22,000 people have died since 1984, half a million suffer from aftereffects,

Forty years ago, the Union Carbide plant exploded in Bhopal, India, causing contamination that killed at least 20,000 people. Its health and environmental impacts persist, along with the victims' ongoing fight for justice against unaccountable corporations.

In the intervening hours of December 2 and December 3 1984, poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbine chemical plant on the outskirts of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, instantly killing thousands and maiming lakhs of others.