Professor Muhammad Yunus is coming to Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra on 8, 9 and 10 March 2010

Professor Muhammad Yunus will give talks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra on - Abolishing Poverty, The Human Rights Priority.

Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, underpinned by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help self-employed poor work their way out of poverty by providing them loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles. Grameen Bank has lifted millions out of poverty by disbursing $ 6.6 billions in millions of tiny loans to very poor people, mostly women. Yunus’ bank has been copied across the world and microcredit -- small loans to the very poor -- is now a mainstream tool in tackling poverty.

Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank were joint winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize as shown in the photo.