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- The Post-event Phase: Long Term Affects of Bhopal

- The International Labour Organization (ILO) has developed a series of conventions:

• The Code of Safety, Health and Working Conditions in the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries emphasizing the continuing responsibility of all parties in hazard management , specifying detailed procedures for the design, operation and alteration of hazardous technologies.
• Convention No. 170 deals with the safe use of chemicals at work.
• Convention No. 174 of 1993 deals with major industrial accidents.
• The Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy stipulates that a national or multinational enterprise with more than one establishment should provide safety measures without discrimination to the workers at all its establishments, regardless ofthe place or country where they are situated.
• The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) is represented by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), a UN body.
• Trade Unions have participated in the preparatory work for the Third European Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, London, 1999. The declaration includes a paragraph on health, environment and safety management.
• The Bhopal Resolution of the European Parliament calls upon European firms to maintain levels of safety abroad that are comparable with those in place in their home operations.
• The 2003 proposal UN Human Rights Norms for Business:Toward Legal Accountability describes the responsibility of the states as well as of the trans-national corporations.

The international non-governmental community has developed its own declarations

- The Permanent People's Tribunal has developed a charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights, following a row of international conventions and guided by other declarations. Some points are:

• Rights to organize
  
• Rights to appropriate health care
  
• Right to a living environment free from hazards
  
• Right to environmental information
  
• Rights to enforcement of environmental laws
  
• Right to relief and compensation

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