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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Why Mary Robinson Fights For Climate Justice
Description: Mary Robinson was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997. She then served as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and has since undertaken a variety of roles at the UN system, focusing on human rights, gender equality and, as is the focus of our conversation today, climate justice. Mary Robinson and I have an extended conversation about what climate justice means and what it entails--and this was a concept, I admit, that I was unaware of until Mary Robinson began to champion it.  We spoke a couple of weeks ago in Yerevan, Armenia, where Mar...