The EU Parliament’s women’s rights committee organised an interparliamentary committee meeting on Thursday 3 March to mark International Women’s Day….
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The EU Parliament’s women’s rights committee organised an interparliamentary committee meeting on Thursday 3 March to mark International Women’s Day….
One of the Principles of Climate Justice is concerned with participatory decision-making because the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes…
Noah McCarthy-Fisher of Schull Community College, Co. Cork became the first recipient of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice…
RTE 1 – Ryan Tubridy talks to Mary Robinson about the Paris Climate Agreement and the role everyone can play…
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The unprecedented call for climate justice has echoed from all corners of the world and was brought inside the walls of the negotiating rooms at COP21 in Paris. We see it reflected in the pages of the Paris Agreement – even if the means to achieve it will have to come in the coming years.
Climate change is already affecting us all and the Paris Agreement adopted tonight provides the opportunity to transform our way…
In the final days of the negotiations of the new climate agreement the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and the French Presidency of the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties convened a Climate Justice Dialogue to highlight the links between climate policy and human rights.
Ms Annick Girardin, French Minister of State for Development and Francophony, co-chaired the dialogue on behalf of the COP Presidency…
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Today, 10th December, we celebrate Human Rights Day at the climate change negotiations in Paris – COP21.
The Foundation will kick-off the celebration of Human Rights Day at the COP21 by co-hosting a high-level event with the…
This article by Mary Robinson was first published in Outreach, a multi-stakeholder magazine on climate change and sustainable development, on 9 December 2015.
Mary Robinson write in “Outreach” – Gender Day at COP21 provides an opportunity to reflect on the need for gender…
Mary Robinson writes in Devex about protecting the rights of the most vulnerable people and the need for urgent action on resilience.
The impacts of climate change do not belong to some distant future. Today, rising sea levels, prolonged drought and more…
Thomson Reuters Foundation - Interview by Megan Rowling PARIS - Human rights and gender equality must be enshrined in the legally binding section of a new global climate change deal in order to secure climate justice for the poorest and most vulnerable, top human rights advocate and U.N. climate envoy Mary Robinson said.
There has been controversy over where references to human rights should sit in the agreement, expected in Paris this week….