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  • The tank that in 1984 leaked the poisonous gas-cloud that invested the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1984, killing thousands, is laying abandoned among overgrowing vegetation in a yard inside the Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • A tank is standing abandoned inside the derelict Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • Shezadi Bee, 59, an activist for the ICJB (International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal) is recounting her dramatic, sorrowful story while sitting on the floor of their office in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • In the early morning, boats are anchored next to the city’s MP Tourism Boat Club, on Bhopal’s Upper Lake, (or Bhojtal) Asia’s largest artificial lake, built by Parmara Raja Bhoj during his tenure as a king of Malwa (1005–1055), in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, city of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • Suraj, 7, a child born with severe mental and physical disabilities from gas-affected parents, is using a medical chair to sit straight while a volunteer and his mother are playing with him, on the floor of Chingari Trust in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The trust offers assistance, education, physiotherapy and advice to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or being fed highly contaminated water since a very early age, when the body is more likely to be affected and to suffer irreparable damage.
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  • Three siblings (top left) are observing their mother offering a plate of milk to three small cats, (bottom left) while another young girl is defecating (right) in front of their home near the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • In the afternoon, children are playing around while women are going about their daily routine, in front of their modest homes along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Two brothers are standing by the entrance of their home along the railway tracks passing through New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Among heavy traffic, three boys have climbed onto the back of a bus in order to cross a flooded junction in Kasi Camp, one of the nineteen water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A girl is busy collecting potable drinking water delivered by a government truck in Oriya Basti, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Bano Bi Ali, 70, is feeding her grandson Rahil Ali, 7, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder, in their home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Rahil lives with his father, Rashid Ali, 35, and his mute and deaf grandmother, in a small, single room his father rents inside a larger house. Rahil's mother left the family three years ago, his father says, because of the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India. She took with her Rahil's two siblings, a sister now aged 6 and a brother aged 3, and remarried. In the past, Rashid and his now ex-wife had no choice but to feed the family on contaminated water for a period about six years, in which all three children were born. But while his siblings appear to be healthy to this day, Rahil was diagnosed with torch infection and Lissencephaly after a CT scan was made of his brain soon after his birth. The latter disorder is incurable, and children in similar conditions to Rahil's have a average life expectancy of less than ten years.
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  • Aliyar, 18 months, a boy suffering from a severe case of hydrocephalus, is lying in the arms of his mother, Roxana, 31, inside the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Shajad Khan, 56, is portrayed inside his home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Shajad has been employed with Union Carbide in the city for 10 years, (1974-1984) first working as a packaging assistant and then assuming a managerial position in the same department.
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  • The Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex is lying abandoned in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Raj, 7, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder is being kissed by his mother, Poona Bai, 40, in front of their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi / Getty Grant for Good
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  • Raj, 7, a child suffering from a severe neurological disorder is being held by his mother, Poona Bai, 40, in front of their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A disabled child is awaiting therapy inside Chingari Trust, the local NGO caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A boy is eating .Panipuri. form a local street vendor in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi / Focus For Humanity
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  • Vegetables are laying inside a home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, located near the former Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • Two boys are collecting grass for their family’s goats inside of a large evaporation pool once used by Union Carbide for their industrial wastewater, next to Blue Moon, one of the contaminated colonies next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. In this area, hazardous chemical have also been buried and continue to contaminate the underground aquifers.
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  • A disabled child is receiving therapy inside Chingari Trust, the local NGO caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A disabled child is awaiting therapy inside Chingari Trust, the local NGO caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A girl is being examined by a member of The Bhopal Medical Appeal during a community meeting near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • Three children are walking on a road inside one of the water-affected colonies in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Disabled children are participating to a physiotherapy session inside the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi / Focus For Humanity
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  • Sachin, 18, (left) Meenakshi,7, and another disable child are sitting in the Chingari bus ready to go home after a day spent at the local NGO, caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • People are warming up near the fire while an adorned cow is walking by during a cold evening in Oriya Basti, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Sitting next to her mother Jtoyi Yadav, 34, (left) Rachi, 7, a disabled girl affected by microcephaly and myoclonic epilepsy, is receiving basic schooling while sitting on the floor of 'Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre', one of two vital medical institutions funded by 'The Bhopal Medical Appeal' in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Poonam, 6, is walking under the late monsoon rain on a path in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Meenakshi, 6, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from a gas-affected mother, is lying on the dry ground in front of her home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • The abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex looms over the impoverished Blue Moon Colony, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A plastic model is laying inside the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A woman's hand decorated with henna is touching the red brick wall, during a community meeting organised by the Bhopal Medical Appeal near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster. Copyright: Alex Masi / Focus For Humanity
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  • Raj, 7, a child suffering from a severe neurological disorder is sitting on the lap of with his mother, Poona Bai, 40, inside their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Copyright: Alex Masi / Getty Grant for Good
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  • Fozia, 7, is smiling in the arms of her father while sitting with her family and twin sister Shazia, (left) in their home inside the impoverished Nawab Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, located dangerously near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Both girls are affected by severe neurological disorders.
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  • A child is wearing a Hanuman mask during the Dussehra Festival celebrations in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the 1984 Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) gas disaster.
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  • A boy is jumping over the wall of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Many of the walls surrounding Union Carbide have been covered in graffiti such as this one, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • Apesha, 4, is participating to a physiotherapy session with her mother, (left) inside the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • On September 29, 2014, the day of former Union Carbide Warren Anderson’s death in Vero Beach, Florida, at the age of 92 and still absconding from India courts wanting him in relation to the ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, angry Bhopalis are sitting in protest in front of the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Shabana, 30, is looking after her young disabled daughter, Sufiya, one and a half years old, while lying on a bed inside their home in Kabar Kana, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. Sufiya is Shabana's first child and the family is now scared of considering further pregnancies. Sufiya suffers from a neurological disorder causing severe seizures and slow development. She is not able to eat or swallow food naturally, and is surviving only on water and milk. As a toddler, in 1984 Shabana survived the poisonous gas cloud that enveloped Bhopal, leaving everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Two brothers are helping each other to cross flood waters in the path to their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the former Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • In the early morning, a family is starting the day by warming near a small fire in front of their homes by the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A boy is playing with a red balloon on the streets of New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A man is lying injured in the middle of the street, after having been hit at the neck during a scuffle, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • In the early morning, while a train is approaching, two women are collecting pieces of coal fallen on the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A young woman is sawing an orange sheet inside her home in Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A team of men is collaborating to create a human pyramid, in order to win a cash prize during the festival of Janamashtami, the birthday of Hindu God Krishna, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Meenakshi, 7, a young girl born suffering from a severe neurological disorder, is being washed by her brother in their home in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A young girl is carrying a child across a muddy path in the impoverished Oriya Basti colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • After having received a medication to her infected eyes, Neha, 7, is sitting on the floor of her home in Indira Nagar, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. Neha was born blind, suffering from a neurological disorder, and due to the insufficient care she regularly receives, she developed an eyes and skin infection, and severe malnutrition. Neha shares a single room with no windows with three sisters and one younger brother: Bushra, 14, a girl affected by down syndrome, Nisha, 12, Fiza, 17 and Sohel, 9. Their father left their home in September 2013 and never contacted them anymore; their mother died in 2011. In 1984 she survived the poisonous gas cloud that enveloped Bhopal, leaving everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rohit, 12, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder is washing himself inside his home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • From the room she is relegated to during the day, Rachi, 7, a disabled girl affected by microcephaly and myoclonic epilepsy, is looking out onto the street in Bhopal, central India. During the day, Ranchi is restrained with a cord to her ankle, in order to prevent her from wandering off alone and being at risk of danger and abuse.
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  • A sticker (Safety is Everybody'ƒÙs Business) is found inside the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) control room in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • Zubin, 3, is portrayed in her usual semi-conscious state on the floor of her home in an impoverished area of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Zubin has recently deceased.
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  • Mohammed Mohsin, 14, a boy suffering from a severe case of cerebral palsy is being fed water by his mother inside a public hospital in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A woman is lifting her child on the streets of Oriya Basti, one of the water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A young boy is crying for attention inside a makeshift house in Oriya Basti, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A girl is walking barefoot next to a woman collecting water from a broken municipal pipe running near a drain in Kasi Camp, one of the water-affected colonies standing close to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Badel, 2, a boy presenting a severe neurological disorder is being cared for by a local boy, Abhisheik, 3, while sitting near their home in the impoverished Orya Basti colony of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Local women are busy collecting supposedly safe drinking water from a few public water tanks located around the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • A disabled child is receiving speech therapy inside Chingari Trust, the local NGO caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A young girl is drinking contaminated water from a hand-pump near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • A photo album with a picture of a young Kameeza Bee, now 60, a widow 'gas-survivor' now suffering from cancer, is open near plastic flowers adorning her living room in Nawab, one of the water-affected colonies near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Kameeza and her family fed on contaminated underground water until 2010, when some pipeline was installed reached her home.
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  • Rahil Ali, 7, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder, in lying on the floor of his home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Rahil lives with his father, Rashid Ali, 35, and his mute and deaf grandmother, Bano Bi Ali, 70, in a small, single room his father rents inside a larger house. Rahil's mother left the family three years ago, his father says, because of the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India. She took with her Rahil's two siblings, a sister now aged 6 and a brother aged 3, and remarried. In the past, Rashid and his now ex-wife had no choice but to feed the family on contaminated water for a period about six years, in which all three children were born. But while his siblings appear to be healthy to this day, Rahil was diagnosed with torch infection and Lissencephaly after a CT scan was made of his brain soon after his birth. The latter disorder is incurable, and children in similar conditions to Rahil's have a average life expectancy of less than ten years.
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  • A young boy is sitting on a bus driving on the streets of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Rashid Ali, 35, is holding his son Rahil Ali, 7, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder, while sitting in their home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex. Rahil lives with his father and his mute and deaf grandmother, Bano Bi Ali, 70, in a small, single room his father rents inside a larger house. Rahil's mother left the family three years ago, his father says, because of the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India. She took with her Rahil's two siblings, a sister now aged 6 and a brother aged 3, and remarried. In the past, Rashid and his now ex-wife had no choice but to feed the family on contaminated water for a period about six years, in which all three children were born. But while his siblings appear to be healthy to this day, Rahil was diagnosed with torch infection and Lissencephaly after a CT scan was made of his brain soon after his birth. The latter disorder is incurable, and children in similar conditions to Rahil's have a average life expectancy of less than ten years.
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  • The Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex is lying abandoned in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • The Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex is lying abandoned in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Children are taking part to a physiotherapy session with their mothers at Chingari Trust, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The trust offers assistance, education, physiotherapy and advice to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or being fed highly contaminated water since a very early age, when the body is more likely to be affected and to suffer irreparable damage.
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  • A child is taking part to a physiotherapy session at Chingari Trust, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The trust offers assistance, education, physiotherapy and advice to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or being fed highly contaminated water since a very early age, when the body is more likely to be affected and to suffer irreparable damage.
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  • Amit, 5, a child born with mental and physical disabilities from gas-affected parents is smiling at his father, Raju, 41, while trying to walk with his help inside their home in the impoverished Blue Moon Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the former Union Carbide industrial complex. Over 30.000 people are here at risk by the ongoing water contamination.
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  • Teacher Usha Tilwana, 39, is assisting Arman Parwez, 6, a young boy suffering from a neurological disorder inside the Chingari Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex Copyright: Alex Masi
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  • Shazan, 2, a child suffering from a severe mental and physical disability, and born from gas-affected parents, is laying on the floor of his home, while his mother is busy working in the house, in the impoverished New Arif Nagar Colony, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • Rusty metal pipes have been abandoned inside the Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • A disable girl is sitting on the floor during a community meeting organised by The Bhopal Medical Appeal near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) factory in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, site of the infamous 1984 gas disaster.
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  • The abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, is laying in full disrepair in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous ‘1984 Gas Disaster’, a tragic event that today continues to consume people's lives.
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  • Rachi, 7, a disabled girl affected by microcephaly and myoclonic epilepsy, is laying on the floor of the room where she is relegated to during the day with a cord to her ankle, her mother Jyoti Yadav, 34, a '1984 Gas Survivor', use to keep her from wandering off on her own, and being at risk of abuse and danger, while inside their home near Saifiya College, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Women are collecting and transporting pieces of coal that have fallen off passing trains along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Disabled children are playing on a slide and on a swing during an afternoon at Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. The trust, funded by The Bhopal Medical Appeal, a British-based NGO, offers counselling, education, physiotherapy and love to hundreds of children born from gas-affected parents or fed highly contaminated water since an early age, when the body is more likely to be affected, and to suffer irreparable damage to health and wellbeing.
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  • In the early morning, families are burning coal along the railway trucks running through New Arif Nagar, one of the contaminated colonies next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India.
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  • Rashida Bee, 56, the co-funder of Chingari Trust Rehabilitation Centre for disabled children, is standing inside the premises of Gas Peedit Mahila Stationary Ikai, a union of 'gas-affected women', of which she is also the president, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Women gas survivors holding torches are demonstrating near the Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, on the eve of the 29th anniversary since the disaster, December 2, 2013. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Samir, 14, a severely disabled boy, is looking towards the light outside while lying on the floor of his home in Kasi Camp, one of the water-affected colonies standing near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Warming up during a cold morning, three siblings are sitting by the fire in front of their home by the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Boys are playing crickets on the streets of New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Children are standing along the railway tracks passing through New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • A woman is walking next to Bollywood movie posters of the film 'Gangs of Wasseypur II', affixed on a pedestrian crossing over a  junction in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Boys are playing around the abandoned evaporation pool that was once used by Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) next to their industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Thousands tons of hazardous chemical waste are still buried in various spots around this area of Bhopal.
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  • Samir, 14, a severely disabled boy, is lying on the floor of his home in Kasi Camp, one of the nineteen water-affected colonies surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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  • Shyan Babu, 11, a child presenting a severe neurological disorder standing in front of his home in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A young boy is defecating on the streets of the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • A disabled boy receiving muscular therapy inside Chingari Trust, the local NGO caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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  • In the early morning, while a train is passing by, a boy is being picked up by his mother in front of their home along the railway tracks in New Arif Nagar, one of the water-affected colonies standing next to the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives.
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  • Rashni, 21, is holding her son Badel, 2, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder while sitting on a bus owned by Chingari Trust, the local NGO caring for disabled  children in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex.
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