Abstract:The stage for this rather unique book is set by none less than UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose very first sentence of his Foreword sums up the qualities of the office and its former holder: "the job of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is not for the faint of heart". And faint of heart Mary Robinson, the subject and, in many ways, also object of this collection of public interventions made during her five years in the 'job', certainly was not. Which is why the collection's bland titl… Show more
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