Mary Robinson lecture

EUROPEAN UNION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA presents: ************************************************************************ **
MARY ROBINSON First Woman President of Ireland Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative speaks on: Ethical Globalization and Human Rights ************************************************************************ ** Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:30 p.m. Public Lecture Garrison Theater, Scripps College 231 E. 10th Street, Claremont ************************************************************************ ** Cosponsored by Clark Lecture Fund and the Malott Commons Office of Scripps College. The event is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information: 909.607.8103 ************************************************************************ ** MARY ROBINSON Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and formerly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. She is the superb example of a woman politician who puts her humanity very much at the forefront of her politics. She now chairs the council of Women World Leaders and is a member of the Global Commission on International Migration. Recently, President Robinson was named a "Hero and Icon" as one of the Time Magazine's 2005 top 100 men and women whose "power, talent or moral example is transforming the world." As an academic, legislator and barrister, she has always sought to use law as an instrument for social change, arguing landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights as well as the Irish courts and the European Court in Luxembourg. In 1988 Mary Robinson and her husband, Nicholas Robinson, founded the Irish Center for European Law at the University of Dublin, and since 1998 she has been Chancellor of the University. Based in New York, President Robinson is currently leading Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, supported by a partnership of the Aspen Institute, Columbia University (where she is a professor of practice) and the Swiss based International Council on Human Rights Policy. Its goal is to bring the norms and standards of human rights into the globalization process and to support capacity building in good governance in developing countries. A Council of Goodwill Ambassador, she also serves on the International Commission of Jurists and is Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. President Robinson was educated at the University of Dublin (Trinity College), King's Inns Dublin, and Harvard Law School to which she won a fellowship in 1967. She holds honorary doctorates from over 40 universities over the world, including Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Oxford, Cambridge, London and Edinburgh. ************************************************************************