Signatories

Mary Robinson was the first woman President of Ireland and was more recently the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As an academic (Trinity College Law Faculty, 1968-1990), legislator (Senator, 1969-1989) and barrister (1967-1990; Senior Counsel, 1980; English Bar, 1973), Mary Robinson has sought to use law as an instrument for social change, arguing landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights as well as in the Irish courts and the European Court in Luxembourg. She is a member of The Elders, a collection of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges.