Winnie Byanyima quotes
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“Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.”
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“By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.”
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“What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.”
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“We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.”
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“It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.”
-- Winnie ByanyimaSource : "Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2014.
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“In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.”
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“Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.”
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“The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.”
-- Winnie ByanyimaSource : "Wealthiest 1% will soon own more than rest of us combined, Oxfam says" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2015.
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“A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.”
-- Winnie ByanyimaSource : "New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%" by Larry Elliott, Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2015.
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“Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.”
-- Winnie ByanyimaSource : "Another World Is Possible, Without the 1 Percent" by Winnie Byanyima, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2015.
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