Formed in 1986, today it has more than 2000 active members almost all of them women. They hold public meetings every week and organize demonstrations every month. Through their legal and extra-legal initiatives the organization has succeeded in overturning the settlement between Union Carbide and the Indian government, in making monetary relief available to survivors and in quality improvement in government hospitals.
Women form the majority of their membership of several thousand.
They too hold public meetings every week and organize demonstrations. It is a small organization with 80 members. It is a coalition of several environmental, labour, human rights, women's, popular science and other organizations that came together in 1989. Formed in 1986 the organization continues to work on documentation of medical and environmental effects legal interventions against Union Carbide and the government as well as disseminating information on the continuing disaster in Bhopal.