Winnie Byanyima Quotes

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Winnie Byanyima

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 13, 1959

Money doesn't just buy a nice car; it also buys better education or healthcare. Increasingly, it can buy impunity from justice, a pliant media, favorable laws, business advantage, and even elections. This, in turn, perpetuates the policies that allow a tiny elite to accumulate ever more wealth at the expense of the majority.

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Women, men, and children have fundamental rights to humanitarian assistance and protection. Yet far too many states block aid and attack their own citizens, and too many others - including some of the world's wealthiest countries - turn their back on those fleeing conflict and violence.

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A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.

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Governments, the investor and business community, and civil society organizations and public representatives need to work together to ensure the necessary foundations are in place to align private finance to guarantee sustainable and equitable development and poverty reduction.

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Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

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Ultimately, developing countries and groups like Oxfam want to see a new intergovernmental body on cooperation in tax matters under the auspices of the United Nations.

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To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.

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Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

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A good leader, in my view, should have a clear vision of the future they want and the society they need to build. They must also have a connection with the people who work for them and be able to mobilise their best energies to create teams where people can be most creative and happy.

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It's happy and secure people who the are most creative.

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You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

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I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.

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I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

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Africa's young population could be a huge economic asset if inequality were addressed.

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My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

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I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.

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I believe we can build a human economy where people are the bottom line.

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We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential. Where corporations pay their fair share of taxes and work for the good of the majority, not just their shareholders.

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