Popular anger in many countries’ politics in recent years is rooted in the failure of neoliberalism GLOBAL COMMENT | WINNIE BYANYIMA | Imagine a world in which women and girls have their rights respected, climate change receives the attention it so urgently requires, and poverty has been eliminated. Never before …
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The Democratic Party (DP) has mourned one of its pioneer leaders Boniface Byanyima, who passed away on Tuesday at Kampala’s Nakasero Hospital. “DP mourns Mzee Boniface Byanyima. In his disturbingly unassuming way his life was a moral challenge to corruption and the arrogance of power,” DP President Norbert Mao said. …
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COMMENT: By Winnie Byanyima The global economic system harms hundreds of millions of people who are already stricken by poverty and exploitation In 2015, the 62 richest people in the world held as much wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest and most vulnerable. In 2016, a mere eight people did, …
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By Aloysious Kasoma Former Mbarara Municipality MP and wife to former opposition leader Col. Rtd Kizza Besigye, Engineer Winnie Byanyima, has been appointed Executive Director of Oxfam International. According to the Oxfam site, the former legislature was appointed after a long global search and chose Byanyima who was described as …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price