Mary Robinson

Taking the Lead in Politics and Climate Change: An Interview With Mary Robinson

Martha Burk | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Mary Robinson, Mary Robinson Foundation, Mary Robinson Interview, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, Mary Robinson Climate Change, World News
Martha Burk

Robinson is widely regarded as a transformative figure in the presidency of Ireland. Today she heads the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice. I interviewed her recently for my radio show, in anticipation of the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development coming up in June.

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Robyn's HUGE One Day Project

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.10.2012

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LONDON — Robyn is turning photographer, for a day. The Swedish pop singer is joining an anti-apartheid icon, a former Irish president and thous...

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Ending Child Marriage: Insights From Desmond Tutu And Mary Robinson

Marianne Schnall | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, Nelson Mandela, Global Motherhood, Child Marriage, The Elders, World News
Marianne Schnall

Child marriage is one of the most shocking and disturbing practices facing girls around the world today. Every year, ten million girls are forcibly married before the age of eighteen, many as young as twelve or thirteen-years-old.

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The People at the Head of the Table Are Talking Past the People Sitting Around the Table

Jack Ucciferri | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Mary Robinson, Occupy Movement, Politics News
Jack Ucciferri

The people of the world are demanding justice and opportunity NOW. Too many of even our best political, economic, and cultural leaders seem deeply invested in interminably slow processes that seem flawed from the get-go.

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Girls Just Want to be Girls

Monika Mitchell | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Empowering Women, Gender Equality, Desmond Tutu, Jennifer Buffett, Clinton Global Initiative, Child Brides, Child Marriage, Mary Robinson, Impact News
Monika Mitchell

The issue of child marriage and the work of "Girls Not Brides" -- announced yesterday at the Clinton Global Initiative -- highlight the challenges ahead for gender advancement.

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Climate Change -- A Glimpse of the Future

Mary Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mary Robinson

Travelling by seaplane to Koyra, in the delta area of Bangladesh, was the equivalent of a journey some years into the future, when the devastating effects of climate change will be an accepted reality worldwide.

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Amanda Terkel

House Republicans Block Child Marriage Prevention Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Senator Dick Durbin, Gop, Desmond Tutu, Dick Durbin, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, House GOP, Dan Burton, Betty McCollum, Ander Crenshaw, Steve LaTourette, Child Marriage, Mary Robinson, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Thursday, the House took up the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010. The bill would ensure that c...

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Leapfrogging Barriers to a Two-State Deal

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New America Foundation Middle East Task Force, David Makovsky, Gro Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Grace Machel, Middle East, Martin Indyk, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Palestine, Kofi Annan, Martti Ahtisaari, Hamas, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, J Street, Jill Biden, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Lady GaGa, Desmond Tutu, Israel Palestine Security, Israel Palestine Border, Brookings Institute, Israel Palestine Peace, Middle East Peace Process, Politics News
Steve Clemons

There is a consensus brewing among progressives, big-name foreign policy hands and some neoconservatives that a borders/security strategy is a way to leapfrog over current impediments to progress in Israel and Palestine.

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Political Memoir

mediabistro.com | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bloomsbury USA has acquired the North American rights for Everybody Matters, the memoirs of former Irish President Mary Robinson....

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Sierra Leone's Model for Improving Maternal Health and Women's Rights

Mary Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Maternal Death, Maternal Health, Sierra Leone, Maternal Mortality, Africa, World News
Mary Robinson

As the world moves toward review of the Millennium Development Goals, other nations should take a closer look at the success of Sierra Leone's maternal health program and commit to apply its lessons around the world.

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Denis Halliday Urges Irish-Americans to Defend the Rachel Corrie

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Sinead O'Connor, Gaza Blockade, Rachel Corrie, Gaza, United Nations, Gaza Flotilla, Denis Halliday, Ireland, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, Barack Obama, World News
Robert Naiman

The issue of the Gaza blockade has tremendous resonance in Ireland, partly because of Ireland's high degree of engagement in international humanitarian causes.

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The Elders Speak: Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter And Mary Robinson

Marianne Schnall | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Women's Rights, Nelson Mandela, Violence Against Women, The Elders, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Middle East Peace, Religion, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Marianne Schnall

There is a diverse, all-star cast of some of today's most treasured and charismatic leaders who have come together online and off in a group called the Elders. Their mission: to fight for social justice.

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The Unheard Truth -- Poverty and Human Rights

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book News, Women's Rights, Women of Juarez, Poverty, Books, United Nations, Kofi Annan, Sierra Leone, Muhammad Yunus, Amnesty International, Mary Robinson, World Economy, Human Rights, Economists, Irene Khan, Gender Issues, Indigenous Rights, Global Poverty, Kenya, Books News
Marcia G. Yerman

October 17th was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. However, a one-day a year acknowledgement doesn't suffice. The Unheard Truth ...

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The New EU Presidency - Contenders And Odds (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, European Council President, Jan Peter Balkenende, Paavo Lipponen, European Parliament, European Commission, Tony Blair European Union, Herman Van Rompuy, Slidepoll, European President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, European Union, Europe, Jean-Claude Juncker, World News

This Thursday, the European Council is expected to announce their first-ever elected President. However, with a baffling selection process taking pl...

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Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World

Sunil Chacko | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Yu-Ai, Prime Minister of Japan Dr. Hatoyama, F.H. Abed, Ashutosh Garg, Eckhardt Tolle, Betty Williams, Dr. Sunil Chacko, Nobel Prize Winners, Victor Chan, Jody Williams, Murray Gell-Mann, Sewa, Swanee Hunt, Fetzer Institute, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, Mary Robinson, The Dalai Lama, Peter Buffett, Governor General Jean, Sir Ken Robinson, California First Lady Maria Shriver, Xiaolian Hu Deputy Governor Chinese Central Bank, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John and Lotte Hecht Memorial Foundation, Warren Buffett, Pierre Omidyar, Dr. Hal Gunn, Vancouver Board of Trade, Ela Bhatt, United Nations, Healthy Living News
Sunil Chacko

Compassion, forgiveness and interdependence were major themes at the dialogue. The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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New Charter for Compassion Website to Launch Sunday

Amy Novogratz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Ted, Karen Armstrong, The Golden Rule, TED Prize, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, World News
Amy Novogratz

TED winner Karen Armstrong and the Dalai Lama will call on the world to begin the world-wide, grass-roots movement to restore compassion to the center of religious, moral and political life.

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The Goldstone Report: Three Strikes and You're Out!

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Gaza, Zimbabwe, Terrorism, Richard Goldstone, Iran, Taliban, Hamas, Darfur, Palestinian Authority, Mary Robinson, Sunday Times, Richard-Goldstone-Gaza, Sri Lanka, Sudan, UN Human Rights Council, Arab Countries, Israel, Christine Chinkin, World News
David Harris

By the time the Goldstone mission "considered" Israel's entry into Gaza, the result was a foregone conclusion. Context? No way. Balance? Forget about it. The verdict? Already in

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AIPAC's Proxy War on Obama

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Medal of Freedom, Barack Obama, President Obama, Aipac, Anti-Defamation League, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Politics News
James Zogby

Despite the harshness of the AIPAC and ADL attacks, and the hurt, no doubt, they have brought to Mary Robinson, I am convinced that this entire episode had less to do with her than it does with the President.

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Medals Of Freedom: Obama Honors Ted Kennedy, Harvey Milk And 14 Others

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 16 people, including political ally Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ...

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From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, G-8, Law, Greed, Carbon Emissions, United Nations, Ireland, Globalization, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mary Robinson, Human Rights, Climate Justice, Green Technology, Recession Fears, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seattle, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.

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Stories To Live By, Thanks To "The Elders"

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Holidays, Peter Gabriel, Christmas, Richard Branson, Jimmy Carter, New Radicals, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Desmond Tutu, The Council of Elders, Kelly Toughill, Graca Machel, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News
Julia Moulden

People around the world tell stories at this time of year - around the table, by reading aloud to one another, and through song. These tales are a way...

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Speak Up for Human Rights: The Price of Silence is Much Too High

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Argentina's Dirty War, Alicia Partnoy, Emmanuel Jal, Breaking Entertainment News, War on Terror, Link TV, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Guantanamo, United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt, UN General Assembly, International Law, Samuel Kofi Woods, Child Soldier, Barack Obama, Amnesty International, Mary Robinson, Patriot Act, Human Rights, The Price of Silence, Sudan, Music Has No Enemies, Itunes, Torture, 100 Days, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

2008-12-09-marcia_silence.jpg In an effort to rally attention to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International is releasing the international song and video, The Price of Silence.

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The Ideal Combination for President: Women Governors

Laura Liswood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mary Robinson, Patrick Healey, Kathleen Sibelius, Women, Jennifer Granholm, Governor Paterson, Janet Napolitano, Linda Lingle, Obama, Mccain, T.D. Jakes, Governor, Politics News
Laura Liswood

McCain or Obama will be only the third president in history to go directly from the Senate to the White House. To me, women governors are more likely to possess the skills senators have to acquire.

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