Board Meeting in Norway Focuses on New Ways to Help the UN Improve Livelihoods in Africa, Bolster Women's and Children's Health, and Combat Climate Change
Twelve of the world's leading voices for global progress and change are gathering this week for the United Nations...
By Abdullah Shibli
Last Spring, I co-taught a multi-disciplinary course with my wife, a social worker, at the Bridgewater State University on the socio-economics of Bangladesh. One of the topics we covered was "Poverty and Measures to Remove Poverty," and we proudly me...
As a follow up of Professor Muhammad Yunus's meeting with President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Ambassador Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis, Under-Secretary General of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations, paid a visit to Yunus Centre yesterday at Mirpur and met with...
By Celeste Tholen Rosenlof, Deseret News
Deseret News associate editorial page editor and columnist Jay Evensen has won the Cameron Duncan award and will accept it at a June 19 banquet in Washington, D.C.
The award recognizes a journalist each year who has brought awa...
Social Business is a visionary concept from Professor Muhammad Yunus that connects the business world with the world of solving social problems. By bringing business concepts into the sector of solving social problems, Social Business allows social activities to be effi...
Professor Muhammad Yunus spoke to Jeune Afrique recently about Social Business. You can read the article here in French....
Professor Muhammad Yunus has been interviewed by The Daily Ittefaq, a leading Bangla language newspaper in Bangladesh. You can read the interview in full here....
About the Social Business Essay Competition
The Yunus Centre's Social Business essay competition is aimed at young people who have creative ideas about how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals through Social Business. The concept of Social Business is new an...
Professor Muhammad Yunus offers his condolences on the death of Freedom Fighter and Bangladeshi pop legend Azam Khan.
Read Professor Yunus' words in Bangla here.
...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus met Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the Presidential Palace in the capital of Brazil, Brasilia, on 25th of May 2011. The meeting lasted for 90 minutes.
During the meeting, Professor Yunus explained how the concept of Social...