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Ten Years on from Fukushima: Are We Asking the Right Questions about Nuclear Energy?
- Analysis
- March 15, 2021
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami originating near Tōhoku, Japan, caused inordinate damage to communities across Japan’s Eastern coastline. It also triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daīchi Nuclear Power Plant. Today – a decade later – the post-disaster clean-up and rebuilding process outside of Fukushima Prefecture is mostly complete, meeting the Japan Reconstruction Agency’s 10-year timeline for earthquake
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Accusations of Genocide: A Tipping Point in China’s International Relations?
- Analysis
- March 11, 2021
China’s oppression of the Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, including mass incarceration in detention camps since at least March 2017, may be a historical tipping point in how the international community deals with China. On January 19, 2021, the United States Department of State determined that China’s treatment of the Uyghurs constitutes an ongoing genocide under
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Empowering Ultra-Poor Women in Bangladesh
- Analysis
- March 9, 2021
In a village of northern Bangladesh lives Nasima, 26 – a victim of child marriage who was abandoned by her husband and left with two children. She lived in extreme poverty until the local village council offered her the opportunity to take up auto-rickshaw driving, providing passenger transport services. The community council marked her vehicle as women only to
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Celebrating Success Stories from Bangladesh on International Women’s Day ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
- Analysis
- March 7, 2021
On a beautiful sunny day in the winter of 1983, I was in Savar in Bangladesh, visiting an income-generating project for the village women. The scene is sombre. I see a handful of saree-clad local women, with their heads covered, lined up. They are standing with baskets and road construction equipment in their hands, their heads slightly down,
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