By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

- Winnie Byanyima

A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are no…

- Winnie Byanyima

The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

- Winnie Byanyima

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme…

- Winnie Byanyima

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift …

- Winnie Byanyima

Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.

- Winnie Byanyima

It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite wh…

- Winnie Byanyima

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

- Winnie Byanyima

Climate change is the biggest threat to our chances of winning the fight against hunger.

- Winnie Byanyima