Social Business
Yunus Calls on Indian Tribal Youth to Become Entrepreneurs
Yunus Centre Press Release (22 November, 2017)Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said that education system needs to change and encourage entrepreneurship over seeking job offers. He was addressing a house packed with tribal youth from all over India, activists and scholars at an event in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in India at the concluding day of Samvaad - Tata Steel's signature event to encourage dialogues and discussions on the essence of being tribal. The event was held in Jamshedpur between November...
Yunus Draws Attention to Danger of Wealth Concentration to UK Audience
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in the United Kingdom for four days for events organized around his new book "A World of Three Zeroes" which focusses on how we can create a world of zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero net carbon emissions. The first stop of the tour was at the London School of Economics where he was invited by the Director Minouche Shafik to deliver a public lecture on the theme of three zeroes. He addressed an audience of 500 students and academics in the Old T...
Yunus addresses Vatican Summit on Nuclear Disarmament
On November 10, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed the Summit on Perspectives for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons and for Integral Disarmament organized by Pope Francis during the opening session. He drew attention to the twin insanity of nuclear weapons with the potential to destroy the world many times over, virtually at the press of a single button and the insanity of our economic system that is concentrating all the wealth in just a few hands. He discussed how the capitalist...
"Social business is our future, social business is for saving humanity and the planet" - Mayor Ann Hidalgo of Paris
Mayor Ann Hidalgo and Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus together officially launched Social Business House Les Canaux on Thursday November 9. The Mayor had announced last year in a press conference held jointly with Prefessor Yunus that the historical building Les Cannaux will be dedicated to become the the home of social business and the social economy for Paris. During the launching ceremony Deputy Prime Minister of France and Environment Minister Nicolas Hu...
Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC) 2017 Opens In Paris
Yunus Centre Press Release (09 November 2017)As part of the ongoing Global Social Business Summit (GSBS) 2017, two-day Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC) 2017 has started on 8 November in Paris which is being held at International University Campus Paris (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris). This is the fifth edition of SBAC. Last year, the fourth edition of the conference was held at HEC Paris.After the welcome speech by Ms. Carine Camby from Cité Internationale Un...
Global Social Business Summit (GSBS) Kicks off in Paris
Yunus Centre Press Release (06 November 2017)Paris (France), November 6, 2017– The 8th annual Global Social Business Summit(GSBS) kicks off today in Paris for the first time bringing together more than 700 delegates from around the world. Participants came from the private sector, civil society, governments and academia, the event will foster discussion, collaboration and the sharing of best practices around social business and its positive impact.While inaugurating the summit, Paris...
The 8thGlobal Social Business Summit (GSBS) will bring together public, private and social partners in Paris to tackle some the world’s most pressing needs through social business
Organized by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and the City of Paris, this year’s edition, entitled ‘New Wave of Hope!’ will focus on 4 key themes: Food and its Value, Plastic Pollution, Solidarity and Refugees, and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Date: 6th - 7th November 2017Location: Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (14th arrondissement)Paris (France), October 31, 2016–For the first time since its creation, the annual Global Social Busin...
Screening Camp & an Exclusive Design Lab for Female Entrepreneur
Grameen Trust (GT) organized a day long program for Screening Camp & Design Lab at Dhamrai unit of Dhaka District under Manikgonj Anchal on September 19, 2017.Screening Camp is the first stage of sharing the idea of Nobin Program with the second generation of Grameen Bank borrowers. This is also a way to indentify potential Nobin Udyokta (New Entrepreneur).Grameen Trust arranged the Screening Camp with Twenty six (26) female entrepreneurs, at Suyapur, Dhamrai. The event was chaired by M...
Grameen America Celebrates its first decade
A gala celebration of ten years of Grameen America “A Decade of Empowerment” was held at Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET) in New York City on 23 September. Grameen America was set up in 2008 inspired by Nobel Laureate professor Muhammad Yunus completes its tenth year in 2017. It provides micro-credit to underprivileged women who do not have access to credit for income generating activities, to build a livelihood for themselves. It reached 100,000 women in 12 cities in the U...
Yunus Urges French President to address Rohingya Crisis
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday met French president Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of UN meetings urged him to play an active role as permanent member of the UN Security Council to bring pressure on the Myanmar government to end the Rohingya crisis. They met after the Head of Government Climate Meeting at the United Nation Head Quarter in New York where Professor Yunus was personally invited by President Macron. Professor Yunus thanked President Macron for supporting Banglad...
Six New Business Launched at 715th Social Business Design Lab
Press Release The 715th Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place on 14 September 2017 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium with nearly 130 national and international participants from Germany, Nepal, India, Taiwan, Columbia. The Design Lab was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Six new Nobin Udyokta (or New Entrepreneur) business plans were presented at today's Lab. The business plans included two tailoring shops, two handicraft shops, one handloom bus...
An Open Letter by 12 Nobel Laureates and 18 Eminent Global Citizens to United Nations Security Council to end the Rohingya crisis
Rohingya Crisis is Deteriorating Very FastAN OPEN LETTER TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO INTERVENE TO END THE HUMAN CRISIS IN RAKHINE, MYANMARDate: 13 September, 2017Dear President and Members of the Security Council,Thank you for holding the UNSC meeting on Rohingya crisis most likely on September 13.The human tragedy and crimes against humanity unfolding in the Arakan region of Myanmar need your immediate intervention. This is one of the decisive moments when bold and decisive actions are needed pro...
Pre-Meeting for Social Business Academia Conference 2017 Held at Mirpur
International Academics Exchanged Ideas on Theoretical Aspects of Social Business30 July, 2017, DhakaPre-meeting of Social Business Academia Conference (SBAC) to be held in Paris on November 8-9, 2017, was held today at Mirpur as a preparation meeting of Paris conference. International academics who came to Bangladesh to attend Social Business Day 2017 attended the meeting. About 120 faculty members from 30 universities around the world attended today’s meeting to discuss about the academi...
Social Business Country Forums Held at Mirpur
Academics to Attend Pre Meeting of Social Business Academia Conference tomorrow Participants of Social Business Day from different countries today assembled separately at their respective country forums at the headquarter facilities of various social business companies to review their social business initiatives and prepare plans for coming years. This was part of the Social Business Day program as originally planned for the second day program. Countries which held these c...
Programs of Social Business Day 2017 Went Ahead with International Delegates, Arrived for the Conference, Deliberated on Wealth Concentration
Sessions Live Telecast on Facebook Sessions, scheduled to held at the cancelled 7th Social Business Day (SBD) was held today, participated by foreign guests who already arrived to join the conference, at a conference room of Hotel Le Meridian. The program was supposed to be held at Samajik Convention Centre in Zirabo, Savar, Dhaka with the theme “Can Wealth Concentration be Stopped?”. The announcement of the live telecast of the sessions was sent from Yunus Centre to media with...