This YunusCentre.org photo on April 17 this year shows Professor Muhammad Yunus delivers a lecture at Georgetown in Washington on ‘Social Business and Microcredit to Address the Problems of Poverty, Unemployment, Women and Health’.
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus Tuesday received the ‘Best Citizen of Bangladesh
Award’ for his role in eradicating poverty and establishing peace across the world.
Bangladesh Human Rights Commission gave Yunus the National Human Rights award-2013 in best citizen category in a programme at Yunus Centre in the capital.
Justice AKM Sadeque, chairman of the commission handed over the award to Yunus.
In 2006 Yunus and Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below.
Yunus has received several other national and international honours. He was awarded the US Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.
In 2008, he was rated 2 in Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers.
In February 2011, Yunus together with Saskia Bruysten, Sophie Eisenmann and Hans Reitz co-founded Yunus Social Business – Global Initiatives.
In 2012, he became Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland.
He is a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Chittagong University in Bangladesh.
Source: The Daily Star
