Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We need more emphasis on linking jobs and economic progress with environmental issues, and not allowing environmentally damaging industries to be brought… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The structures of the WTO need to be reformed to increase participation. There must be a greater sense of shared ownership of… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
In human rights theory it is very important that governments still have the primary responsibility for the standards and provision of such… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We need to be prepared to have multi-stakeholder, well-managed partnerships. That can be very effective. We saw this happen at international level… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient,… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in scoring points or being over-critical of the US administration. I want to find the entry points to try and get… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates development from… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous peoples, and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship right across… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
There are numerous issues that governments used to deal with that they now no longer deal with to the same extent: Prisons have been… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we highlight equality… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
