DHAKA and NEW DELHI, Mar 15 (IPS) – In an unique interview given to IPS UN Bureau, journalist Sania Farooqui is in dialog with Bangladeshi lawyer, Rizwana Hasan who was lately awarded the sixteenth Annual Worldwide Ladies of Braveness Awards by the U.S Division of State. Hasan works primarily to guard the surroundings and defend the dignity and rights of marginalized Bangladeshis. By way of landmark authorized circumstances over the previous 20 years, Hasan has modified the dynamics of improvement in Bangladesh to incorporate a people-centered concentrate on environmental justice.
In her capability as Chief Government of the general public curiosity regulation agency Bangladesh Environmental Legal professionals Affiliation, she has argued and gained monumental circumstances in opposition to deforestation, air pollution, unregulated ship breaking, and unlawful land improvement. In 2009, Hasan was named as considered one of 40 Environmental Heroes of the World by TIME journal and was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2012 for her activism. Within the years since, she has continued her essential work within the courtroom to fight environmental degradation and the native results of local weather change, regardless of important resistance from highly effective pursuits and threats of violence to herself and her household.
On this interview, Rizwana Hasan and Sania Farooqui contact upon numerous subjects, together with profitable the Worldwide Ladies of Braveness Awards, rising up in a patriarchal society to adjustments within the angle in direction of ladies professionals, Hasan’s private journey and challenges, what it took to turn out to be a lawyer and an environmentalist, and lastly influence of local weather change, particularly on marginalized communities.
Bangladeshi Lawyer Rizwana Hasan Awarded Worldwide Ladies of Braveness Award
