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Ex-workers affected due to mercury pollution by the Hindustan Unilever’s now-defunct thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, on Monday staged a protest at the company’s headquarters in Andheri, Mumbai, when the Annual General Meeting with shareholders was held. Supported by 30 volunteers from Mumbai, 11 families from Kodaikanal took part in the protest, holding placards and photographs of deceased workers and children. They appealed to the shareholders to make the company address its liabilities. The workers also gave pamphlets to shareholders detailing Unilever’s actions that polluted a scrapyard in Kodaikanal where the company dumped toxic mercury wastes. The resultant death toll stands at 45 workers of the now-defunct Unilever factory besides 12 of their children.

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