Association for India's Development, Buffalo chapter (AID-Buffalo)

06/28/2016

AID stands firmly in solidarity with the people and organizations fighting against widespread caste-based injustices.

The caste system is severely ingrained in Indian society. Caste-based divisions have been comfortably normalized in everyday life, and the society is blind to how the basic human rights and dignity of millions of fellow Indian citizens are perennially under threat from caste-based discriminatory pra...

06/09/2016

Sign the petition at https://wh.gov/isOdv
Thanks to Claire Curran for this awesome map!

06/05/2016

Despite their poverty and poor health due to toxic gas exposure, Bee and Shukla have emerged as leaders in the international fight to hold Dow Chemical accou...

06/03/2016

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ?

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06/01/2016

A Toxic Rap Battle | The Dow Chemical Company vs

My Toxic Rap Battle: DOW Vs. Bhopal Whose side are you on? SIGN the petition to the US White House telling them to stop shielding Dow Chemical from its corpo...

05/26/2016

Our local partners Clean Air Coalition of WNY are co-sponsoring the petition to the White House along with AID and International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.

Please sign the petition and verify the confirmation email sent out from White House - the only way to make your signature count.

In 1984 a factory majority-owned by Union Carbide (UCC, a US corporation) leaked toxic gas in Bhopal, India, killing 8K-10K people instantly & maiming 500K more. India charged UCC with manslaughter, but UCC refused to show for trial. Dow Chemical bought UCC in 2001 but has not made UCC available to…

05/19/2016

Please sign the international petition asking the US government from the Bhopal courts: http://tinyurl.com/dowchempet In 1984, a Dow-Carbide f...

05/17/2016

's powerful video urging folks to sign the petition to The United States Department of Justice
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Sign the petition to the White House - https://wh.gov/isOdv Tell the US government to stop shielding Dow Chemical from accountability for corporate crimes st...

01/28/2016

wants to highlight another based project in providing social advocacy and health-related support for and gender-variant persons by our partners, Madhya Banglar Sangram & Moitrisanjog Coochbehar for their work in and , , .

Transgender, Hijra and gender-variant people are among the most marginalized sections of society, prone to familial rejection, social discrimination, s*xual violence, and lack of employment opportunities, which compels especially poorer trans/gender-variant people to take up s*x work and Hijra professions and exposes them to high rates of s*xually transmitted infections.

The project has provided support in around ten cases of violence or discrimination toward community members, including advocacy with police and legal aid.

Learn more: http://boston.aidindia.org/social-advocacy-health-related-support-transgender-gender-variant-persons

01/12/2016

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