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Winnie Byanyima Quotes
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Winnie Byanyima
Politician
Born:
Jan 13
,
1959
People
Poverty
Society
Women
Work
World
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Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.
Winnie Byanyima
Design
Society
Ensure
Must
Civil
Vital
Civil Society
Delivery
Step
Governments
Up
Public
Assessment
Services
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Life
Rights
People
Better
Opportunity
Poverty
Power
Live
Claim
Out
Better Life
Also
Make
Access
Denied
Influence
Decisions
Who
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Space
Challenge
Made
Few
Society
Dissent
Ensure
Sector
Citizens
Civil
Civil Society
Participate
Majority
Without
Limited
Private
Provides
Governments
Private Sector
Account
Oxygen
Hold
Interest
Decisions
Meaningfully
Elites
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Life
Politics
People
Opportunity
Corrupts
Our
Extremely
Wealthy
Impact
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Leads
Policies
Denied
Being
Influence
Poorer
Us
Disproportionate
Flourish
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Work
Justice
Rights
Fight
People
Voice
Economic
Part
Mainly
Global
Without
Oppressed
Oxfam
Movement
Social
Social Justice
Who
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.
Winnie Byanyima
Fight
Poverty
Corrosive
Economic
Unrest
Economic Growth
Puts
Force
Inequality
Brake
Against
Social
Sparks
Growth
Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.
Winnie Byanyima
Our
Extreme
Temporary
Economies
Inequality
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Future
Generation
Natural
Treat
Resources
Several
Crisis
Point
Had
Continue
Natural Resources
Planet
Planets
Act
Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.
Winnie Byanyima
Community
Our
Abuse
Global
Scourge
Africa
Tax
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Heart
Financial
Lose
Sit
Action
System
Must
Haven
More
Network
Push
Demand
Countries
Global
Most
Dodging
Governments
Reform
African
Tax
Tax System
Full
Therefore
Whose
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.
Winnie Byanyima
Environmental
Women
World
Political
Problems
Girl
Economic
Environmental Problems
Women And Girls
Discrimination
Goes
Any
Core
Conflict and callous politics drive famine.
Winnie Byanyima
Politics
Conflict
Drive
Callous
Famine
Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.
Winnie Byanyima
People
Economic
Economic Growth
Left
Behind
Being
Billions
Growth
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.
Winnie Byanyima
Memory
Out
High
Haunted
Prices
Reach
Because
Am
Still
Years
Years Ago
Friends
HIV
Dying
Kept
Medicines
Needed
The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.
Winnie Byanyima
Injustice
World
Wealthy
More
Than
Apparent
Workplace
Nowhere
Belongs
We don't want to tell young girls and boys that the odds are stacked against them from the start. Instead, we could tell them that with passion, conviction, and determination we can build a better future. This future is possible by redesigning our economy to truly reward hard work rather than wealth.
Winnie Byanyima
Work
Future
Hard Work
Determination
Wealth
Better
Passion
Reward
Girl
Build
Odds
Young
Conviction
Our
Possible
Tell
Rather
Better Future
Could
Instead
Economy
Boy
Truly
Than
Stacked
Want
Young Girls
Against
Them
Hard
Start
Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.
Winnie Byanyima
Progressive
Inequality
Effect
Offset
Taxation
Growing
Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.
Winnie Byanyima
Change
Struggle
Rich
Extreme
Tackling
Part
Between
Climate
Climate Change
Same
Poor
Gap
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