Farhana Sultana

Jan 17, 2025 | berlinergazette.de | Farhana Sultana |Magdalena Taube

In the megacities of the Global South, urban inequalities collide with erratic climatic conditions, creating new crises and exacerbating old ones. Megacities in monsoon deltas face climate-related water crises in a variety of ways. This is exacerbated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where development policies, haphazard urban planning, rapid urban population growth, and social inequalities reproduce multiple injustices and vulnerabilities at multiple levels and locations.

Dec 16, 2024 | nature.com | Farhana Sultana

In a recent Perspective1, Zimm et al. argued that “there is no consistent approach to comprehensively incorporate and examine justice considerations” in climate research. While we welcome the attention of the authors and the journal to climate justice, we find that Zimm et al. replicate a number of forms and practices of injustice and fail to recognize and include the history and breadth of environmental and climate justice scholarship. In other words, the paradox of the paper by Zimm et al.

Aug 22, 2024 | thehill.com | Farhana Sultana

Since July, I have been glued to social media and international news reports on the student protests, massacre of students and subsequently, the student-led mass uprising that overthrew Bangladeshi autocrat Sheikh Hasina on Aug. 5. I am a Bangladeshi who grew up in faculty housing at Dhaka University, the epicenter of the student protests. As a child, and later as an adult, I was surrounded by Bangladeshi students and witnessed their activism and political consciousness.

Aug 13, 2024 | qoshe.com | Farhana Sultana

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Aug 13, 2024 | thediplomat.com | Farhana Sultana

A secular student-led mass uprising overthrew the dictatorship of India-backed Sheikh Hasina on August 5. Hasina had ruled with an iron fist for over 15 years; her ouster has been hailed as Bangladesh’s Second Independence. On August 8 a new, diverse, and progressive interim government, headed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, was inaugurated. As the interim government and the nation attempts to rebuild and renew, it is already facing significant threats.