Yunus Receives "Women Deliver Award" for Innovation in Copenhagen.
Yunus Centre Press Release (18 May 2016):
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus Received "Women Deliver Award" for Innovation in Copenhagen during the plenary session of the ‘Women Deliver’ conference in Copenhagen on 18th May 2016. In his acceptance, he said that he dedicated the award to all the millions of women he had worked with through the Grameen Bank for their courage and hard work to change their own lives. The award was presented by Saundra Pelletier, CEO of WomanCare Global.
Professor Yunus was a panelist at the plenary session "Investing in Girls & Women: Everybody Wins’ at the conference. While recounting his experience at the session, Professor Yunus said youth, technology and social business will change the world. He said that the youth should plan to become entrepreneurs rather than job-seekers. He shared his experience of bringing phones in the hands of poor rural women in Bangladesh which empowered them both socially and economically. It opened the door of technology to the poor women and their families. Financial services for the poor women is the most strategic investment that can be made in all societies. He reiterated his position that credit should be accepted as human right.
Other panelists include Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO, Plan International, Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF, Hans Vestberg, CEO, Ericsson Kristian Jensen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark.
Women Deliver’s 4th Global Conference, taking place 16-19 May 2016, is the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights. The conference is held once is every three years and first one was held in 2007. The Women Deliver conference is organized to raise visibility, awareness, and energy around the importance of investing in women and girls and how those investments enable girls and women as drivers of impact and engines for development. The conference focused on exploring key areas that future investments in women and girls must address to sustain momentum and how to address challenges in and opportunities for breakthroughs. The conference also inspired and encouraged the audience to expand its ambitions from getting women and girls on the center of the global development agenda to driving accountability and action at scale. More than 5000 leaders most of them women are attending the conference in Copenhagen.
The 4th Women Deliver conference is supported by Australian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, European Commission, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark (DANIDA), The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD)m The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, UNAIDS, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF & United Nations Foundation, among others.
Professor Yunus also attend the board meeting of the United Nations Foundation of which he is a founding member, which was created with a US$ 1 billion dollars donation of CNN founder Ted Turner, and which finances. UN projects in various fields.
Caption 1: Nobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus speaking at the plenary session of the ‘Women Deliver’ conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on 18th May 2016 titled "Investing in Girls & Women: Everybody Wins’. He is flanked by the foreign minister of Denmark Mr Kristian Jensen on his left and Mr Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF on his right.
Caption 2: Nobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus being presented "Women Deliver Award" for Innovation during the plenary session of the ‘Women Deliver’ conference in Copenhagen on 18th May 2018 by Saundra Pelletier, CEO of WomanCare Global.
Source: Yunus Centre
Updated Date: 16th January, 2017