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Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson, a former President of Ireland, is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice.
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Climate Justice
Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson Series: The World in Words 2011-11-30Climate change is a matter of justice: the richest countries caused the problem, but it is the world’s poorest who are already suffering from its effects. At the climate-change summit now taking place in Durban, South Africa, the international community must commit to righting that wrong.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 9985
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Africa’s Stake in the Climate-Change Debate
Graca Machel, Wangari Maathai and Mary Robinson Series: Into Africa 2009-12-02While industrialized countries worry about how climate-change mitigation will affect their economies, the urgent adaptation needs of the poorest countries have largely been ignored. But, in accordance with the “polluter pays” principle, high-income countries must provide Africa with accessible and dependable funding to support mitigation and adaptation strategies.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 13770
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Accounting for Gaza
Mary Robinson Series: Human Rights 2009-09-28The UN HUman Rights Council has focused in recent years so intently – even exclusively – on Israel's treatment of the Palestinians that many accuse it of anti-Israel bias. Let us hope that, when the Council this week examines Judge Richard Goldstone's report on human rights violations by both Israel and Hamas during the Gaza conflict earlier this year, it proceeds fairly.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11080
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Human Rights Require Stronger Institutions
Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu Series: The World in Words 2008-12-04To this day, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains the single most important reference point for discussion of ethical values across national, ideological, and cultural divides. Yet the Declaration’s enlightened vision of individual freedom, social protection, economic opportunity and duty to community is still unfulfilled. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 17097
