41 Quotes by Mary Robinson

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. “I have been hearing this expression—‘we need to think outside the box’—for the past 3 days,” she said, reiterating the cliche. “It seems a little strange to me,” the woman continued with bemusement. “In my community we don't thinking boxes.

We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.

must not abandon its core standards and values, even in the face of the serious security threat to its own civilian population.

I am very clear that it's a human rights situation and it will be important for me to appraise this perspective, the extent of the human rights situation, extra-judicial killings, torture, etcetera,

I think the main perpetrators are substantially known, and indeed known to Jakarta ... at every meeting I have attended the issue of justice has come up,

Our motivation is our love for all babies.

We are deeply concerned about those who have been required to return from the borders back into Kosovo and about whom we cannot find first-hand information, ... That was a cause of really grave concern.

The convention (on refugees) provides that they should be accepted at the nearest port and I think the issue is a very serious one.

Whenever force is used, the principle of proportionality has to be applied, and all necessary measures have to be taken to avoid loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian property.