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Mary Robinson’s presentation, titled "Realizing Rights: New Alliances for Human Rights, Development and Migration", was a frank assessment of global trends in human rights, business and migration. Robinson emphasized the role that business can play in the promotion of human rights, mentioning the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights which she chairs, as well as the Global Compact, an initiative aiming to promote corporate social responsibility launched by the United Nations. Robinson ... highlighted that migration was a topic to be tackled by the entire global community and that the recent Global Commission on International Migration, in which she was a Commissioner, was but one example needed to develop new policies to better govern the movement of people. In addition, she stressed the responsibility of states not only to sign international conventions on all topics touching human rights, but to develop mechanism to ensure they will act according to them. Her entire lecture was underlined by a very pragmatic and hopeful approach to human rights, stating at the beginning of her speech that she founded Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization initiative, the NGO she now heads, in order to develop ways by which human rights can become a concrete reality.
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Mary Robinson (1757-1800) was among the most celebrated literary figures of the 1790s, yet her posthumous erasure was even more total than that of her contemporaries Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith. For a while she was remembered as an elegant poetess, then dwindled to a minor figure in theatre history, the royal mistress, “Perdita”, and the subject of delectable portraits by Gainsborough, Romney and Reynolds. During the past twenty years she has been rehabilitated by literary scholars and critics such as Roger Lonsdale, Stuart Curran, Jacqueline Labbe and Judith Pascoe. This, and the success of Amanda Foreman’s Georgiana, have made possible the publication of these two biographies. They will attract slightly different readerships, and both are welcome.
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Mary Robinson is ... lecturer at the University of Columbia and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She is President of the Council of Women World Leaders, and a member of the steering committee of the Vaccine Fund, and of the U.N. Global Coalition Leadership Council on Women and Aids. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Earth Institute. She is Vice-president of the Club of Madrid and honorary president of Oxfam International. She has been a member of the International Commission of Jurists (1987-1990), of the Royal Irish Academy and of the American Philosophical Society.
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The life of Mary Robinson provides an object lesson in a problem that chronically afflicts biographers. Here is an amazing story, that of a girl with modest prospects who makes her mark as an actress, dabbles in poetry, writes novels and plays and becomes mistress of the Prince of Wales -- and all of this before dying at the age of 43. Such accomplishments would be startling in any epoch. Yet she did it in the 18th century. "Perdita," as she was called (after her most famous role), was well enough known to be the subject of cartoonists and the favorite model for such portraitists as Hoppner, Romney, Gainsborough and Reynolds.
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Mary Robinson was born in Bristol on 27th November 1758. Her father Nicholas Darby was an American-born merchant, while her mother, Hester Darby, claimed aristocratic descent from the Seys of Boverton Casle in South Wales, who in turn boasted family links with the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke. Robinson was one of three surviving children born to the Darbys; her brothers John and George followed their father into trade, both becoming successful merchants at Leghorn.
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Mary Robinson was born in May 1944 in Ballina, County Mayo. Her father, Dr. Aubrey Bourke, was a general practitioner in that area for 50 years. Her mother, Tessa O'Donnell, came from County Donegal.
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