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Preliminary Inventory to the Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) and Bhopal Resource Action Center Records TAM.554

Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) and Bhopal Resource Action Center Records

Call Number

TAM.554

Dates

circa 1970-2005, inclusive
; 1980-2000, bulk

Creator

Council on International and Public Affairs (U.S.)
Bhopal Action Resource Center
Council on International and Public Affairs (U.S.) (Role: Donor)
Oppenheim, Carolyn Toll (Role: Donor)
Morehouse, Ward, 1929- (Role: Donor)

Extent

36.5 Linear Feet
(37 boxes)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

The Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) was founded in 1954 as a nonprofit human rights, education, research and publishing group, with an international outlook, and with a particular emphasis on corporate accountability and social responsibility, prompted in part by the Bhopal, India disaster occurred in 1984 at a Union Carbide Pesticide plant in which a leak of toxic gas killed some 8,000 people immediately, a like number in succeeding years, and caused thousands of permanent disabilities, notably blindness. The collection contains CIPA minutes, annual and financial reports, reports on various issues, topics, and files on CIPA projects and sponsored organizations, notably in relation to the Bhopal, India Union Carbide Industrial Accident, including records of the Bhopal Action Resource Center. Bhopal-related materials include reports, legal and government documents and clippings. There are also records of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, a development organization that advocates and promotes technology that enriches and benefits the lives of poor people, and publications, reports and articles of CIPA founder Ward Morehouse.

Historical/Biographical Note

The Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) was founded in 1954 as a nonprofit human rights, education, research and publishing group, with an international outlook, and with a particular emphasis on corporate accountability and social responsibility, prompted in part by the Bhopal, India disaster occurred in 1984 at a Union Carbide Pesticide plant in which a leak of toxic gas killed some 8,000 people immediately, a like number in succeeding years, and caused thousands of permanent disabilities, notably blindness.

CIPA has sponsored various projects and organizations, notably the Bhopal Resource Action Center, the International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB), Apex Press (its publishing arm), as well as the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD), the Intermediate Technology Development Group, and the Global Information Network (GIN), a distributor of developing country news services. CIPA also seeks remedies for human rights violations, primarily by exposing the roots of corporate power in the U.S. and worldwide. Ward Morehouse (b. 1929), CIPA's founder and now its president emeritus, taught Political Science at New York University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden and the Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad. He has also been a consultant to various United Nations agencies, and is the author or editor of some twenty books, including Building Sustainable Communities, The Bhopal Tragedy, Abuse of Power: The Social Performance of Multinational Corporations, Worker Empowerment in a Changing Economy, and The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy. A resident of Northampton, MA, Morehouse is also a co-founder of the Western Massachusetts Committee on Corporations and Democracy with his wife, Carolyn Toll Oppenheim, CIPA's interim Executive Director and a former journalist and journalism professor.

Arrangement

This collection is unprocessed.

Scope and Content Note

The collection contains CIPA minutes, annual and financial reports, reports on various issues, topics, and files on CIPA projects and sponsored organizations, notably in relation to the Bhopal, India Union Carbide Industrial Accident, including records of the Bhopal Action Resource Center. Bhopal-related materials include reports, legal and government documents and clippings. There are also records of the Intermediate Technology Development Group, a development organization that advocates and promotes technology that enriches and benefits the lives of poor people, and publications, reports and articles of CIPA founder Ward Morehouse.

Subjects

Organizations

People

Topics

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) and the Bhopal Resource Action Center were transferred to New York University in 2010 by Carolyn Oppenheim and Ward Morehouse. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.

Copyright to books published by the Council on International and Public Affiars (CIPA), Apex Press, Zed Press, The Other India Press, and the Information Technology Development Group Press is retained by the donors.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) and Bhopal Resource Action Center Records; TAM 554; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Location of Materials

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to research visit.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Carolyn Oppenheim and Ward Morehouse on behalf of the Council on International Public Affairs (CIPA). The accession number associated with this collection is 2010.076.

Collection processed by

Tamiment Staff

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:36:42 -0400.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Description is in English

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Bhopal Disaster Publications, 1984-2005, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bhopal Disaster Articles and Clippings (A-L), 1984-2005, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Sorted alphabetically by publication name. One folder per publication.

Bhopal Articles and Clippings (M-W), 1984-2005, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Sorted alphabetically by publication name. One folder per publication.

International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB); ICJB Victims Tour; UCC Perspectives, 1980s

Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB). Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)

International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) India and U.S.: Correspondence, Letters, Activism, Bhopal Citizens Commission, 1984-1990s, inclusive

Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) Correspondence and Reports, Late 1980s-1990s

Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

NGOs and groups involved international justice for justice in Bhopal.

Reports, Articles and Correspondence, 1980s-1990s

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Full folder of NYTimes articles and correspondence between CIPA and NYTimes. PPT- Permanent People's Tribunal Delhi 1992.

Bhopal Court Documents, Government Reports, Union Carbide Corporation Annual Stockholder Meetings (Multiple Meetings), 1980s-1990s

Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

U.S. Senate Hazards Right to Know hearings. Ginsburg Report Formosa Plastics: Glaveston Plastics - Texas

International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) Documents, Correspondence, Late 1980s

Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Union Carbide West Virginia plant info. Analysis of UCC. Texas brain tumor research. OSHA reports related to Bhopal and toxins.

Bhopal Action Resource Center (BARC); International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB)

Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Bhopal Action Resource center (BARC)

Bhopal Action Resource Center (BARC): Bhopal Legal Documents, Court Transcripts, U.S. and India, 1984-2000, inclusive

Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

UCC Financial Info. Other misc.

Bhopal Action Resource Center (BARC): Media Clippings, Articles; Bhopal Legal Documents and Medical Reports and Articles, 1985-1987, inclusive

Box: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bhopal Action Resource Center (BARC) Documents, 1980s

Box: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Bhopal Action Resource Center (BARC)

Reports, Dissertations and Other Writing on Bhopal -- Legal, Toxic Issues., 1983-2005, inclusive

Box: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Sorted by author or publication name.

Legal Documents, Reports, 1984-1990s

Box: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bhopal Reports on Permanent People's Tribunal: Legal Documents, 1980s

Box: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Medical and Legal Reports and Court Transcripts; Bhopal Activism., 1984-1990, inclusive

Box: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bhopal Documents and Medical Reports from India., 1980s

Box: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Union Carbide-Related Documents, 1980s-1990s

Box: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CIPA: Permanent Peoples Tribunal; Several Peoples' Tribunals on Corporations, Human Rights, Bhopal and More., 1980s; 1990s

Box: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

CIPA report on: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Global Corporations and Human Wrongs, 22-25 March, 2005. University of Warvick, Coventry, UK

Permanent Peoples' Tribunals on Bhopal and Other Areas, 1980s-1990s

Box: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Popular forums. United Nations. Citizens resistance to toxins. Corporate analysis. Enron.

Biotechnology, Corporate Power, Technology Development, United Nations, 1970-2005, inclusive

Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Publications and articles. Also: David Dembo and Clarence J. Dias. Unido studies. Third World Affairs 1985 (WM and DD)

Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) Newsletters (By What Authority); Margold Report--NAACP., 1980s; 1990s

Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Legal and labor documents. International Secondary Education. Church Proxy Solutions. Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD).

Environmental, Hazardous and Biotech Activities, Reports and Papers by CIPA and Others, 1980s

Box: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Hazardous Substances Export Policy (SEP). PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) correspondence, reports and activism. Research on Monsanto, Genex Corporation. INFACT reports on corporate power.

Superfund. Workers Hazards and Unemployment, 1980s, 1990s

Box: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reports and Papers on Biotechnology and its Legal and Third World Impacts and Related Issues; Superfund Documents, 1980-1990s

Box: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

CIPA, Ward Morehouse, David Dembo, Clarence Dias

CIPA Reports for United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); Other Writing on Science, Technology and Biotechnology., 1980s

Box: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Biotechnology Reports, Papers and Research Documents, 1980s

Box: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

International Center for Law and Development. Center for Science, Technology and Developement.

Activism on Biotech, Toxics and Right to Know. Bhopal Related EPA Report 1985. Rachel's Weekly 1991-1992, 1980s, 1990s

Box: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

EPA Guidelines on Chemical Safety (1985) just immediately after Bhapal chemical spill and before the U.S. Community Right to Know Law. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Underbelly of the U.S. Economy; Working papers on Unemployment, Labor and the U.S. Economy., 1980s, 1990s

Box: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Corporations, Too Much Newsletters, Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, 1980s, 1990s

Box: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

CIPA reports. "A Perilous Partnership- The UN Development Programme's Flirtation with Corporate Collaboration"- TRAC- The Transnational Resource & Action Center- In collaboration with the Institute for Policy Studies and CIPA. UNIDO report: "Technology Trends Series- Trends in Biotechnology Development & Transfer". D. Dembo and W. Morehouse. Media Source Guide on US-China Relations- 1983 (CIPA). Book: "Not in my Backyard" by Jane Anne Morris - 1994- ISBN 97809624574

Organizing Material to Resist Corporate Abuse of Power, 2000s

Box: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Communities Concerned about Corporations (CCC): Reports, Writings and Correspondence, 1990s

Box: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

POCLAD poster: 'A Call to Defy Corporate Domination"

VHS Videos and Audio Cassettes, 1980s, 1990s

Box: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) Annual Reports: 1977-2005; Board Meetings: 1995-2009, 1979-2009, inclusive

Box: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

National Jobs for All Coalition (NJFAC): Pamphlets, newsletters and envelopes "Drive for Decent Work"

Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) Board Meetings, 1978-1994, inclusive

Box: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) Board Meetings, Notes, Correspondence and Annual Reports, 1979-2000, inclusive

Box: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Intermediate Technology Development Group - North America (ITDG N/A)

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