Lgbt Rights in Ireland - Lgbt Rights Activists from Ireland, Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese, David Norris, Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: LGBT rights activists from Ireland, Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese, David Norris, Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Recognition of same-sex unions in Ireland, List of laws and reports on LGBT rights in Ireland, LGBT rights in the Republic of Ireland, Lydia Foy, Ivana Bacik, Colley Report, Tonie Walsh, Quentin Fottrell, Norris v. Ireland. Excerpt: Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (nee Bourke) (Irish: born 21 May 1944) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate (1969-1989). She defeated Fianna Fail's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fail. She is widely regarded as a transformative figure in the presidency of Ireland, who revitalised and liberalised a previously conservative political office. She resigned the presidency two months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up her post in the United Nations. Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. Robinson is also one of the European members of the Trilateral Commission. She serves on many boards including as chair of the GAVI Alliance (until 2010). Robinson's newest project is Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initi...