Mary Robinson
✓ Source-basedrisingFormer President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989, and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983.
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Trinity College Dublin.Robinson served as Reid Professor of Law in the university, as well as being one of its three elected senators in Seanad Éireann for twenty years.
Robinson gives a speech, 1994
Robinson greets U.S. President Bill Clinton on a visit to Dublin, 1995
Robinson in Somalia, 2011
Robinson and Musimbi Kanyoro with a cheetah
Robinson at the World Economic Forum in 2013
Mary Robinson, the UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region, on 28 April 2013 in Kinshasa, during a press briefing at the Ministry of Foreign AffairsIn their own words 2
We have entered a new reality where fossil fuel companies have lost their legitimacy and social license to operate.
The Elders Chair Mary Robinson Uses UN Press Conference to Denounce President Trump, Canada Free Press, Joseph A. Klein (13 June 2019)
It is a huge honour to take up the role as Chair of The Elders at such a critical moment for peace, justice and human rights worldwide.
Mary Robinson appointed new Chair of The Elders, (1 November 2018)
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Yehudi MenuhinAlso won Otto Hahn Peace Medal
Elinor OstromAlso won honorary doctorate from University of Montpellier-I
F. W. de KlerkAlso won Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
Colin PowellAlso won J. William Fulbright Prize
Montserrat CaballéAlso won Princess of Asturias AwardsAbout this person
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989, and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Although she had been briefly affiliated with the Labour Party during her time as a senator, she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency and the first not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil. Following her time as president, Robinson became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
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