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Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and professor of economics who won the Nobel peace prize for his development of microfinance

February 2020

  • Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures as he speaks in parliament during Question Period in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 18, 2020. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle

    As Nobel prize winners, we demand Justin Trudeau stop the Teck Frontier mine

    John Coetzee, Alice Munro, Muhammad Yunus, Elfriede Jelinek and others
    All new projects that enable fossil fuel growth are an affront to our state of climate emergency, say Nobel prize winners Alice Munro, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Hans Deisenhofer and 39 others

May 2013

  • Death toll continues to rise after the building collapse in Savar

    Poverty matters blog
    After the Savar tragedy, time for an international minimum wage

    Muhammad Yunus

    Muhammad Yunus: Bangladesh's garment industry must be reformed, not destroyed. Let's see foreign buyers unite to lift workers out of 'slave labour'

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