In the Media

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…

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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….

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Mary Robinson writes in the Huffington Post: For me, it is the injustice of the impacts of climate change and the resultant undermining of human rights that motivates my work on climate justice. The impacts of this change are being felt hardest by those people who have done the least to cause the climate crisis -- including the citizens of small island states and vulnerable coastal communities.

The people and communities on the front lines of climate change have benefitted least from our traditional development paradigm and…

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The Conversation - Six of The Conversation’s top experts from around the world put their questions to Mary Robinson about climate justice, women’s rights and the progress being made in Paris.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson is one of the world’s leading voices on climate justice. Appearing at the UN climate…

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