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Winnie Byanyima
Winifred Byanyima is the executive director of UNAIDS. She is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist, and diplomat.
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Born 13 January 1959 · Q21759
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s World Economic Forum to take a personal pledge to tackle the problem by refraining from dodging taxes or using their wealth to seek political favours. As well as being morally dubious, economic inequality can also exacerbate other social problems such as gender inequality, Oxfam warned. Davos itself is also struggling in this area, with the number of female delegates actually dropping from 17% in 2013 to 15% this year . How richest use their wealth to capture opportunities Polling for Oxfam
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Career landmark: executive director (2013).
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2013· 3 entries
Career landmark: executive director (2013).
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“s World Economic Forum to take a personal pledge to tackle the problem by refraining from dodging taxes or using their wealth to seek political favours. As well as being morally dubious, economic inequality can also exacerbate other social problems such as gender inequality, Oxfam warned. Davos itself is also struggling in this area, with the number of female delegates actually dropping from 17% in 2013 to 15% this year . How richest use their wealth to capture opportunities Polling for Oxfam”
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Byanyima was the keynote speaker at the Ugandan North American Association (UNAA) convention in Dallas, Texas
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2012· 1 entry
“I was surprised to be invited to be a co-chair at Davos because we are a critical voice. We go there to challenge these powerful elites. It is an act of courage to invite me.”
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2010· 1 entry
“Do we really want to live in a world where the 1% own more than the rest of us combined? The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering and despite the issues shooting up the global agenda, the gap between the richest and the rest is widening fast.”
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2008· 1 entry
“We want to bring a message from the people in the poorest countries in the world to the forum of the most powerful business and political leaders. “The message is that rising inequality is dangerous. It’s bad for growth and it’s bad for governance. We see a concentration of wealth capturing power and leaving ordinary people voiceless and their interests uncared for.”
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2004· 1 entry
Byanyima is a member of the FDC, although she has significantly reduced her participation in Ugandan politics since she became a Ugandan diplomat in 2004.
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-01-13.
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