"For most of my adult life, I have been an advocate for women and children and families both here in the United States and around the world. Way back in the early 1980s, I read about a man named Muhammad Yunus, and called him up and asked him to......
Watch Video>>The global economic crisis can be an opportunity for positive social change, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said during a speech honoring former South African President Nelson Mandela. ......
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"Creating a New World: A Dream or a Reality?"
by Muhammad Yunus
A very good afternoon to everyone.
I am deeply honoured and privileged to be invited to deliver the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture here in South Africa. I have been to South Africa many time...
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Lasting peace can ...
It was around 2:50pm, when someone from the Norwegian television channel called me. He told me that the peace prize will be announced within 10 minutes and requested me to hold the line because whispering went on outside the room that I was going to win the Nobel Peace....
On Dr. Muhammad Yunus Being Awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeStatement From The Office of President Bill Clintonfrom www.clintonfoundation.org
Hillary and I first met Muhammad Yunus when I was Governor, and he inspired us to create a micro-finance program in Arkansas based...
"I want to congratulate Dr. Muhammad Yunus on winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
About twenty years ago, Dr. Yunus traveled to Arkansas to help Bill and me set up microcredit programs in the United States. Since that time, in my travels in Bangladesh and around the...
The Secretary-General is delighted that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Professor Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, pioneers of the microfinance movement and long-standing allies of the United Nations in the cause of development and t...
From New Nation Online EditionWorld NewsManmohan, Sonia greet Nobel laureate YunusBy UNB, New DelhiSat, 14 Oct 2006, 10:35:00Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and leading newspapers eulogized Bangladesh's Mohammed Yunus, who won Nob...
BBCBangladesh is the most crowded place on Earth and will become even more impossibly packed in the next 30 years.Approximately 20% of its land, it is feared, will be lost to the rising waters brought about by climate change.Today's 150 million Bangladeshis also have to...
