Name: There’s No Sustainable Development Without Human Rights
Uploaded: 2010-09-24T14:20:36-04:00
Duration: 2 min 54 s
Description: How can there be real progress in a nation like Niger, where 1 in 7 women die from childbirth, unless the country’s human rights crisis is addressed?

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Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997) and more former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), has spent most of her life as a human rights[…]

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