Winnie Byanyima Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Winnie Byanyima:

Fundamental is the need for governments to protect the space for citizens to claim their rights, organize, and express themselves.

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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Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

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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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The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.

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I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we - humanitarians - have been complicit.

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People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights.

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

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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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Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

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Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.

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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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I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

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Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.

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

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We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.

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Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

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Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.

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The high price of medicines is crippling healthcare systems and denying people access to the treatments they so desperately need.

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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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Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.

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

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Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

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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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The Paris Agreement threw people of the world a lifeline, and the United States played a vital role in getting us there, not least by working closely with China to clear the decks to a global deal.

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Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

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The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his party. They choose to protect their profits from a flailing fossil fuel industry over human lives and a clean, inclusive future for us all.

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

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Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

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The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.

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I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

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Global governments should start seriously talking about the creation of a World Tax Authority with the mission to ensure that tax systems will deliver for the public interests in all countries.

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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 am still haunted by the memory of my Ugandan friends dying from HIV years ago because high prices kept the medicines they needed out of reach.

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The move to a zero-carbon future is unstoppable.

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