6/10/2007

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER

Speak Truth To Power is dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness.

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER is a division of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.

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DEFENDER FROM SPEAK TRUTH WINS 2006 Nobel Peace Prize!

"On behalf everyone at Speak Truth to Power, we warmly and delightedly congratulate Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen bank, recipients of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The pair was honored for their development of microcredit, a banking system which helps poor people in Bangladesh start businesses without collateral, enabling them to lift themselves out of poverty."

As the Nobel prize committee stated: "Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty.

Microcredit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights.”

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