List of awards received by Muhammad Yunus

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Awards received by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank:

Yunus received 62 honorary doctorate degrees from universities from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UK, United States and Peru. [31]

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  5. ↑ "Dr. Muhammad Yunus – 1994 World Food Prize Laureate". WorldFoodPrize.org. Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
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  18. ↑ The Mother Teresa of the Financial World Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine , Internationale Projekt Consult; Retrieved: 2007-09-09
  19. ↑ Four Freedoms Award winners 2006, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award website; Retrieved: 2007-09-09
  20. ↑ ITU World Information Society Award – 2006, ITU Home Page, International Telecommunication Union; Retrieved: 2007-12-09
  21. ↑ Lauret 2006 Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine , Seoul Peace Prize website; Retrieved: 2007-09-09
  22. ↑ Yunus to receive Nichols-Chancellor's Medal Archived 2008-06-18 at the Wayback Machine , Vanderbilt News, 2007-03-12; Retrieved: 2007-09-09
  23. ↑ UNB, Dhaka (2007-05-14). "Prof Yunus gets highest Venezuelan honour". The Daily Star. Vol 5 Num 1048. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
  24. ↑ Bss, Dhaka (2007-07-30). "Yunus made adviser to provincial govt in China". The Daily Star. Vol 5 Num 1125. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
  25. ↑ Corine Award Homepage (German)
  26. ↑ Watt, Chris (24 November 2008). "Nobel Prize winner to get two honorary degrees on same day". The Herald. Glasgow. The University of Glasgow is to award an honorary degree to Professor Yunus ... Before attending Glasgow University for the ceremony next Monday, Professor Yunus will deliver a lecture ... at Glasgow Caledonian University, where he will also be presented with an honorary doctorate.
  27. ↑ "President Obama Names Medal of Freedom Recipients" Archived 2009-12-15 at the Wayback Machine , White House Office of the Press Secretary, July 30, 2009
  28. ↑ List of Winners of 2010 Asian Awards .
  29. ↑ "Yunus receives Olympic Laurel award at Tokyo Olympics opening". Dhaka Tribune. 23 July 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  30. ↑ Dr Yunus receives United Nations Foundation’s Champion of Global Change Award, The Daily Star, 14 December 2021
  31. ↑ "Muhammad Yunus on Facebook". Facebook . Archived from the original on 2022-04-30.[ user-generated source ]
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