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December 20 2021
Striving to Realize the Ideals of My Father
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina is the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, now in her fourth term. She is a daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father and its first President. Sheikh Hasina is well recognized now as a global leader for her influential work on peace, prosperity, humanity, and climate change. Sheikh Hasina has been the President of the oldest and the most influential political party of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Awami League) for 40 years and was first elected as Prime Minister in 1996 for a five-year term. Subsequently winning three consecutive five-year terms, she has engineered and presided over very rapid economic growth and development, lifting Bangladesh out of the status of Least Developed Countries. She has pursued many humanitarian causes and works relentlessly to build a socially and economically inclusive country. Among her many humanitarian causes, she concluded a peace treaty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, gave shelter to more than one million Rohingyas who were driven out of their homeland, and currently chairs the 48-nation Climate Vulnerable Forum at the UN.
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Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina is the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, now in her fourth term. She is a daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father and its first President. Sheikh Hasina is well recognized now as a global leader for her influential work on peace, prosperity, humanity, and climate change. Sheikh Hasina has been the President of the oldest and the most influential political party of Bangladesh (Bangladesh Awami League) for 40 years and was first elected as Prime Minister in 1996 for a five-year term. Subsequently winning three consecutive five-year terms, she has engineered and presided over very rapid economic growth and development, lifting Bangladesh out of the status of Least Developed Countries. She has pursued many humanitarian causes and works relentlessly to build a socially and economically inclusive country. Among her many humanitarian causes, she concluded a peace treaty in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, gave shelter to more than one million Rohingyas who were driven out of their homeland, and currently chairs the 48-nation Climate Vulnerable Forum at the UN.
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Sheikh Hasina
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (2021) 13 (1-2): 2–20.
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Sheikh Hasina; Striving to Realize the Ideals of My Father. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2021; 13 (1-2): 2–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/inov_a_00279
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