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Overview
As an activist lawyer, she won landmark cases advancing the causes of women and marginalized people against the prejudices of the day, and in her twenty years in the Irish Senate she promoted progressive legislation, including the legalizing of contraception. In l990, she shocked the political system by becoming Ireland's first woman president, redefining the role and putting Ireland firmly on the international stage. In her role as UN High Commissioner for human rights, beginning in 1997, she won acclaim for bringing attention to victims worldwide but was often frustrated both by the bureaucracy and by the willingness to compromise on principle. Now back in Ireland and heading her Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, she has found the independence she needs to work effectively on behalf of the millions of poor around the world most affected by climate change.
Told with the same calm conviction and modest pride that has guided her life, Everybody Matters will instill anyone who reads it with the belief that each of us can, in our own way, help to change the world for the better.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781620405239 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication date: | 02/25/2014 |
Pages: | 336 |
Sales rank: | 642,823 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
1 Beginnings 1
2 In Transition 19
3 Finding My Voice 31
4 Broadening My Horizon 47
5 Ploughing My Own Furrow 59
6 Looking Beyond Our Borders 75
7 Balancing Family and Work 91
8 Windows of Change 109
9 A President with a Purpose 127
10 The Smell of Fresh Paint 145
11 Hope and History 161
12 Neither Fish nor Fowl 185
13 Boldly and Duly 201
14 Bearing Witness 215
15 Into the Crucible 233
16 When the Dust Settled 249
17 Realizing Rights in Practice 261
18 Being an Elder 283
19 Connecting the Global and the Local 299
Acknowledgments and Credits 309
Index 313
What People are Saying About This
"Robinson fashions a stately, forthright autobiography…. She details her work at hot spots across the globe, and writes engagingly and warmly of her current foundation addressing issues of climate change and world poverty." - Publishers Weekly "[This] autobiography from one of the world's leading political figures provides a special insight into ongoing civil and human rights questions…. A worthy addition to the growing list of memoirs from world-class servants of the public." - Kirkus Reviews