Winnie Byanyima Quotes

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Winnie Byanyima

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 13, 1959

By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that could and should be spent on schools, healthcare, and other essential services.

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When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

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GDP excludes care work and other unpaid work, most of which falls to women and girls in rich and in poor countries alike.

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Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

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African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.

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For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us who fought our way to freedom, as it was for the millions who joined decolonization struggles in the African continent.

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The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

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The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

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Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

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Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

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Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

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Ending extreme poverty is possible.

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Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

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Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.

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My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance.

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That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

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The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.

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African countries lose billions every year because of tax dodging by big corporations and wealthy individuals. They lose billions more from overly generous tax incentives in a misguided belief that this is the only way to attract foreign investment.

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Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

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