Washington, D.C. -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement on the possible removal of Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which he founded:
"I am deeply concer...
By Mahfuz Anam
Can a technicality be the main measure of judging a man of Yunus' stature?
So after all the talk of "blood sucking" and "siphoning off billions" the real guilt of our one and only Nobel Laureate and globally admired microcredit pioneer and Grameen B...
Today Professor Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh's Nobel Peace Laureate, Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, and 9 Directors of the Bank brought separate legal challenges in the High Court to orders of the Bangladesh Bank stating that he had been ‘relieved from his p...
I have been deeply touched by the public response in support of Grameen Bank and me over the past few months. I express my gratitude and thanks to my friends worldwide for their strong and tireless support during this trying time.
Professor Muhammad YunusManaging Dir...
The Chairman of Grameen Bank has told the press today that the Central Bank has removed Professor Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank. This is a legal issue. The Hon'ble Finance Minister has himself stated yesterday that it is a legal issue. Grameen Bank...
From February 14th to February 19th, a team from the Yunus Centre visited the small island nation of Timor-Leste to explore the possibility of introducing a family of social businesses. The United Nations Development Program, who hosted the trip for the Yunus Centre re...
By Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam
I still remember the day when I met Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank for the first time. It was, I think, in 1998. He came to give a lecture at the University of Madrid, Spain. The huge conference room of the Medical ...
The University of Florence visited the Yunus Centre in September and began creating a social business centre at the University. Then in January, a memorandum of understanding was signed, making official the partnership between the University of Florence and the Yunus Ce...
By Fakhruddin Ahmed
There was a time, not so long ago, when Bangladesh's name was synonymous with disasters. The calamities were either natural (cyclones or floods), or manmade (political assassinations or coup de tats).
Former American Secretary of State, Dr. Henry K...
Twelve distinguished personalities in a statement here yesterday said some quarters are expressing and publishing opinions and news about Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, which do not focus the truth.
They said that it seems the quarter is out to damage the image of...
