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Mary Robinson addressed the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers on 25 November 2015 before the official start of The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

Speaking at the gathering, Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy…

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The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation co-hosted a Climate Justice Dialogue, focused on the necessary investment to end energy poverty, in the margins of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Annual Governance Weekend on 22 November 2015.

Participant Yacob Mulugetta, Professor of Energy and Development Policy at University College London, succinctly summed up the two great and interlinked…

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Mary Robinson writes in the Huffington Post about the inextricable link between human rights and climate change.

The foundation on which truly resilient and fair societies can be built was defined in the Universal Declaration of Human…

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Speaking at the Women and Climate Change Symposium in the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Mary Robinson, highlighted the need to ensure that women’s voices are heard and their priorities supported.

Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, delivered a keynote address at the symposium on women and climate change…

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Mary Robinson introduces a new series on climate change, COP21 and the right to health by the Health and Human Rights Journal.

I am delighted to welcome and launch this Health and Human Rights Journal series on climate change, COP21 and the right to…

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Mary Robinson delivers keynote speech at 13th Statutory Congress of European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in Paris on 1 October 2015.

“To realise climate justice, we need the power of the union movement. We need an unprecedented global solidarity movement” stated…

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Amidst the buzz of the Sustainable Development Summit, philanthropists, development specialists and government officials met in New York last week to discuss opportunities for the philanthropic community to support the new development agenda.

To explore new and innovative ways in which philanthropic capital can accelerate progress towards the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),…

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