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Everybody Matters - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Everybody Matters - A Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R402
Loot Price R327
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You Save R75 (19%)
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Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 Political Book of
the Year The first woman President of Ireland, who became UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, 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 and 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 and how she came into painful conflict with her parents -
marrying against their wishes and, later, helping to legalise
contraception in a deeply Catholic Ireland. As a barrister she won
landmark cases advancing the causes of women and 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 put
Ireland firmly on the international stage. Accepting the position
of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1997 was her biggest
challenge and here she describes the huge political difficulties
she encountered among the many triumphs. Subsequently, based in New
York, she led Realizing Rights for eight years, pioneering how to
implement in practice economic and social rights: working in
African countries on health, decent work, corporate responsibility
and women's empowerment in peace and security. Now heading her own
Climate Justice foundation she has succeeded in finding the
independence she needs to work effectively on behalf of the
millions of poor around the world most affected by climate change.
Told with the same calm conviction and 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.
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