Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (; ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who served as the seventh president of Ireland, holding the office from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in 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.Robinson is widely regarded as having had a transformative effect on Ireland, having successfully campaigned on several liberalising issues as a senator and as a lawyer. Robinson was involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality, the legalisation of contraception, the legalisation of divorce, enabling women to sit on juries, and securing the right to legal aid in civil legal cases in Ireland. She was Ireland's most popular president, at one point having a 93% approval rating among the electorate.
During her tenure as High Commissioner, she visited Tibet (1998), the first High Commissioner to have done so; she criticised Ireland's immigration policy; and criticised the use of capital punishment in the United States. She extended her intended single four-year term as High Commissioner by one year to preside over the World Conference against Racism 2001 in Durban, South Africa: the conference proved controversial due to a draft document which equated Zionism with racism. Robinson resigned her post in September 2002. After leaving the United Nations in 2002, Robinson formed Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, which came to a planned end at the end of 2010.
Robinson served as Chancellor of the University of Dublin from 1998 until 2019, and as Oxfam's honorary president from 2002 until she stepped down in 2012. She returned to live in Ireland at the end of 2010 and has since founded ''The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.'' Robinson remains active in campaigning globally on issues of civil rights. She has been the honorary president of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) since 2005. She is a former Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is also a founding member and chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. She was a member of the European members of the Trilateral Commission. Provided by Wikipedia
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Poems By Mrs. Robinson by Robinson, Mary
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Elegiac Verses To a Young Lady, On the Death Of Her Brother; Who Was Slain In the Late Engagement At Boston The Author Mrs. M. Robinson by Robinson, Mary
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Ode To the Harp Of the Late Accomplished and Amiable Louisa Hanway By Mary Robinson by Robinson, Mary
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Modern Manners, a Poem In Two Cantos. By Horace Juvenal by Robinson, Mary
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Captivity, a Poem. And Celadon and Lydia, a Tale Dedicated, By Permission. To Her Grace the Duchess Of Devonshire. By Mrs. Robinson by Robinson, Mary
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Walsingham Or the Pupil Of Nature. A Domestic Story. By Mary Robinson, Author Of Angelina- Hubert De Sevrac- ... In Four Volumes by Robinson, Mary
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The Songs, Chorusses, &C. In the Lucky Escape, a Comic Opera, As Performed At the Theatre Royal, In Drury-Lane by Robinson, Mary
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The Poetical Works Of the Late Mrs Mary Robinson Including Many Pieces Never Before Published. In Three Volumes by Robinson, Mary
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The Mistletoe.-A Christmas Tale By Laura Maria by Robinson, Mary
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I know why the caged bird sings : notes / by Robinson, Mary
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Beloved : notes / by Robinson, Mary
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A voice for human rights / by Robinson, Mary, 1944-
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Moisture of the earth : Mary Robinson, civil rights and textile union activist : an oral history / by Robinson, Mary, 1943-
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Old age insurance for household workers. by Robinson, Mary V.
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Women in South Carolina industries : a study of hours, wages, and working conditions. by Robinson, Mary V.
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Women in the candy industry in Chicago and St. Louis : a study of hours, wages and working conditions in 1920-1921. by Robinson, Mary V.
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Women in Rhode Island industries : a study of hours, wages, and working conditions. by Robinson, Mary V.
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A voice for human rights / by Robinson, Mary, 1944-
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Poems / by Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
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Regulars and the secular realm : the Benedictines of the Congregation of Saint-Maur in Upper Normandy during the eighteenth century and the French Revolution / by Robinson, Mary Kathryn, 1974-
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