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Podcast: Inside Geneva
Episode: Human rights and those who defend them: Mary Robinson
Description: Send us Fan MailOn Inside Geneva this week: part two of our series marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Imogen Foulkes talks to Mary Robinson, the second person to serve as UN Human Rights Commissioner. Even as a schoolgirl in Ireland, she was already passionate about human rights. ‘I was a bit of a bookworm, and I found a book with a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt holding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That iconic photo.’She became a campaigning lawyer, and then Ireland’s first female preside...