Maher Sattar

1 day ago | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar

“I don’t think any other commission’s report has gotten so much attention,” says Maheen Sultan, one of the members of Bangladesh’s women’s affairs reform commission. It’s hard to disagree. Sultan’s commission was set up by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’s interim government to help introduce major structural reforms after years of authoritarian rule under the ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

1 week ago | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar

While tariffs are making headlines, Trump 2.0 is also upending the results of decades of international collaboration at the United Nations. The U.S. stood firm against  to get those attending the U.N.’s annual meeting on gender equality in March to commit to protecting women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. It has also rejected the Sustainable Development Goals, a framework for international development that was unanimously adopted by all 193 U.N. member states 10 years ago.

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar

The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s third largest country that sits at the center of the continent, has had a long and complex history of conflict. Though the recent capture of Goma and Bukavu, the largest cities in eastern DRC, by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, has brought this decades-long conflict back into media attention, violence has been escalating since 2021.

Jan 27, 2025 | fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda |Muktadir Rashid |Maher Sattar

A day after the Los Angeles fires began, I returned to what was once my two bedroom condo in the Pacific Palisades. I wanted to see what was left. I masked up with an N95 – I wore two, in fact, thinking that it would protect me and my pregnancy better. In spite of the double layer, I could smell the acrid, toxic fumes that the smouldering piles of rubble were emitting. I felt light-headed, and I had a headache for two days, even though I barely left the car.

Jan 20, 2025 | fullerproject.org | Muktadir Rashid |Maher Sattar |Louise Donovan

Eight years ago, on the day after Donald Trump moved into the White House, millions of women and their supporters donned pink “pussy” hats and marched in cities across the country and the world in a show of force that we now know largely failed. That the Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in American history, with half a million people cramming into the streets of downtown Washington and some 3.5 million marching in other cities and towns, mattered not a whit.