{"id":28482,"date":"2022-03-21T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=28482"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:17","slug":"our-newest-faculty-member-meera-karunananthan-featured-in-an-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2022\/our-newest-faculty-member-meera-karunananthan-featured-in-an-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Our newest faculty member Meera Karunananthan featured in an interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Our newest faculty member Meera Karunananthan featured in an interview\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Meera Karunananthan participated in an educational series the BBC did on international law. The BBC contacted Meera due to her involvement in a campaign to have the access to water and sanitation recognized as human rights at the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See Meera&#8217;s involvement here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/chinese\/features\/international_law_water\/is_a_lack_of_water_discriminatory\">Water &#8211; International Law &#8211; Is a lack of water discriminatory<\/a>? Start @ 6:00 mins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meera Karunananthan participated in an educational series the BBC did on international law. The BBC contacted Meera due to her involvement in a campaign to have the access to water and sanitation recognized as human rights at the UN. See Meera&#8217;s involvement here: Water &#8211; International Law &#8211; Is a lack of water discriminatory? Start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28488,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482\/revisions\/28488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}