Champa Devi Shukla

Indian activist Champa Devi Shukla hails from the city of Bhopal. In 2004, she and Rashida Bee shared the Goldman Environmental Prize. Shukla and Bee have launched campaigns and tribunals against the accounting firm and its owners to bring about justice for those who survived the 1984 Bhopal tragedy, which claimed the lives of 20,000 people. Champa Devi Shukla and Rashida Bee were the driving forces behind an international movement to seek justice for the Bhopal Union Carbide Gas Tragedy survivors in 1984. Shukla brought her campaign against Union Carbide Company (UCC) and its partner, Dow Chemicals, to New York Click to look into! >> Read More... and other American cities after beginning with protests and rallies in India. Dow Chemicals is defending itself against several lawsuits from Champa and other protesters.

They organized a 19-day hunger strike in New Delhi in 2002 to press charges against former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. Shukla and Bee shared the 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize to bring the Bhopal disaster to the world's attention. Shukla works as a junior binder at the Central Government Press. Her husband was a government worker who passed away from cancer in 1997. Due to health issues brought on by the methyl isocyanate gas leak, two more of Shukla's sons also passed away. Three more kids are left, but none live regular lives. The Bhopal Gas tragedy's unsung hero is Champa Devi Shukla. Shukla and Bee have launched campaigns and tribunals against the accounting firm and its owners to bring about justice for those who survived the 1984 Bhopal tragedy, which claimed the lives of 20,000 people. Champa Devi Shukla, 52, offered the survivors some ray of hope. She has been leading the global effort to secure justice for them for the past 19 years.