Background
Robinson, Mary was born on May 21, 1944 in Ballina, County o, Ireland. Daughter of Aubrey Bourke and Tessa O'Donnell.
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Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice
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One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Displaying a gift for storytelling and remembrance, Robinson reveals, in Everybody Matters, what lies behind the vision, strength, and determination that made her path to prominence as compelling as any of her achievements. 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.
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Mary ROBINSON
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Education
Master of Arts, Dublin University, Trinity College, Ireland, 1967. Barrister, King's Inns, Ireland, 1967. Barrister, Middle Temple, 1973.
Master of Laws, Harvard University, 1968. Data Control Language, Oxford University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Basle University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Brown University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Cambridge University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Columbia University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Coventry University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Dublin University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Fordham University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Kyung-Hee University, Seoul. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Katholieke University, Leuven.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Liverpool University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), London University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Melbourne University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Montpellier University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), National University Ireland. Doctor of Laws (honorary), National University Mongolia.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), National University Wales. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Poznan. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Queen's University, Belfast.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), St. Andrews University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Toronto University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Uppsala University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Yale University. Doctor International Law (honorary), University Costa Rica. Doctor, Essex University.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Dublin City University. DPS (honorary), Northeastern University. Doctor of Science (honorary), Humaines University Kennes.
Doctor of Science (honorary), A Schweitzer University Berne.
Career
Member, Irish Senate, representing Dublin University, 1969-1989. Member, Vedel Committee (Enlargement of the European Pari.), 1971-1972. Chairwoman, Social Affairs Sub-Committee, 197787 and Legal Affairs Committee, 1987-1989 of the Irish Parliamentary Joint Committee on European Community Secondary Legislation, 1973-1989.
Member, Dublin City Council, 1979-1983. Senior Counsel, 1980-1990. Member, Irish Parliamentary Joint Committee on Marital Breakdown, 1983-1985.
Member, New Ireland Forum, 198384. Co-founder, Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL), 1988. Director and Chairwoman, Executive Committee, ICEL, 1988-1990.
President of Ireland, December since 1990. Professional career: Reai Prof, of Criminal Law and lecturer in European Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 1969-December 1990.
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Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice
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Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice
Membership
Patron International Community Women Living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Chair Irish Chamber Orchestra. Chair international board International Institute Environment and Development, Fund for Global Human Rights.
Board member Vaccine Fund, Global Compact. Founding member The Elders, since 2007. Fellow Institution Engineers of Ireland (honorary), Royal College Physicians Ireland (honorary), Royal College Psychiatrists London (honorary), Royal College Surgeons, Ireland (honorary), Royal College Obstetricians and Gynecologists London.
Member Royal Irish Academy, American Philosophical Society.
Connections
Married Nicholas Robinson. Children: Tessa, William, Aubrey.
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Political Party
Independent
Awards
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Recipient Marisa Bellisario prize, Italy, Cooperative American Relief Everywhere Humanitarian award, 1993, International Human Rights award International League of Human Rights, New York, Liberal International prize for freedom, New Zealand Suffrage Centennial medal, Berkeley medal University California, Medal of Honour, University Coimbra, Portugal, Ordem dos Advogados, Portugal, Gold Medal of Honour, University Salamanca, Spain, University Chile, Global Leadership award United Nations Association, Freedom prize Max Schmidheiny Foundation, Switzerland, UNIFEM award Noel Foundation, United States, Collar of Hussein Bin Ali, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, North South prize Council of Europe, 1997, F.D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms medal, 1998, Dag Hammerskjold Medal, 1998, Erasmus prize, Government The Netherlands, 1999, Fulbright prize, 1999, Indira Gandhi Peace prize, 2000, Sydney Peace Prize, 2002, Ambassador of Conscience award, Amnesty International, 2004, Presidential Medal of Freedom, The White House, 2009. Named to International Hall of Fame, International Women's Forum, United States of America. Named one of 100 Most Influential People, Time Magazine, 2005.Recipient Marisa Bellisario prize, Italy, Cooperative American Relief Everywhere Humanitarian award, 1993, International Human Rights award International League of Human Rights, New York, Liberal International prize for freedom, New Zealand Suffrage Centennial medal, Berkeley medal University California, Medal of Honour, University Coimbra, Portugal, Ordem dos Advogados, Portugal, Gold Medal of Honour, University Salamanca, Spain, University Chile, Global Leadership award United Nations Association, Freedom prize Max Schmidheiny Foundation, Switzerland, UNIFEM award Noel Foundation, United States, Collar of Hussein Bin Ali, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, North South prize Council of Europe, 1997, F.D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms medal, 1998, Dag Hammerskjold Medal, 1998, Erasmus prize, Government The Netherlands, 1999, Fulbright prize, 1999, Indira Gandhi Peace prize, 2000, Sydney Peace Prize, 2002, Ambassador of Conscience award, Amnesty International, 2004, Presidential Medal of Freedom, The White House, 2009. Named to International Hall of Fame, International Women's Forum, United States of America. Named one of 100 Most Influential People, Time Magazine, 2005.