Everybody Matters

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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. Now for the first time she reveals what lies behind the vision strength & determination that has helped her to achieve so much for human rights around the globe. She describes the upbringing which gave her her strong sense of values & how as her personal convictions grew she came into painful conflict with her parents
- marrying against their wishes & later helping to legalise contraception in a deeply Catholic Irel&. As a barrister she followed her conscience to win landmark cases advancing the causes of women & the marginalised against the prejudices of the day. & when
- to the surprise of many
- she became the first woman President of Ireland in 1990 she reinvigorated the role & helped put Ireland firmly on the international stage. Accepting the position of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1997 was to prove an enormous challenge & here she does not shrink from describing the huge political difficulties she encountered among the many triumphs during her term. Subsequently based in New York she led Realizing Rights for eight years pioneering how to implement in practice economic & social rights: working in African countries on health decent work corporate responsibility & womens empowerment in peace & security. Now heading her own Climate Justice foundation she has put together a team to work effectively on behalf of the millions of poor around the world most affected by climate change. Told with the same calm conviction & modest pride that has guided her life Everybody Matters will inspire everyone who reads it with the belief that each of us can in our own way help to change the world for the better.