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No Role for the UN in the Tragic Birth of Bangladesh

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Liberation War Museum
There are few if any heroes among world leaders in the story of how the nation of Bangladesh emerged in 1971 bloodied, bruised and battered. Created by hurried British mapmakers in 1947 as the eastern wing of a bizarrely…
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Bangladeshi Pioneer Invests in Women From the ‘Ultra-Poor’

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Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC
Fazle Hasan Abed runs the world’s largest nongovernmental development organization. He has garnered numerous international prizes, honorary degrees, very important friends and a British knighthood. Yet in the United States, Abed’s successes, won through a creative self-help program centered…
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