She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2004, together with Champa Devi Shukla.
[1] Rashida Bee along with Champa Devi Shukla, both survivors of the infamous Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984, led an international campaign against Dow Chemical and its subsidiary Union Carbide and to get justice for the victims of that December night.
[2] In 2002, they organised a 19-day hunger strike in New Delhi, demanding that the former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson face a criminal trial in Bhopal.
They also called for Dow to provide long-term health care for survivors and their children, clean up the former Union Carbide site, and supply economic support to survivors who can no longer work due to illness.
[3][4] On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, in 2004, Bee and Shukla received the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded in a ceremony in San Francisco, California, on 19 April.