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Fulbright Prize Edition 1999 Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Receives 1999 Fulbright Prize for International Understanding he Fulbright Association awarded the 1999 J. William Fulbright Prize T for International Understanding to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson on Oct. 8 at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State. The prize, which carries a $50,000 cash award, is made possible by a grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. Mary Robinson ince her appointment as United also served on the Dublin City Council articulated a special relationship Nations high commissioner for and the International Commission of between Ireland and developing Shuman rights by UN Secretary Jurists . countries. General Kofi Annan in June 1997, In December 1990, Mrs. Robinson The Robinson presidency was Mary Robinson has taken on the was characterized by inclusiveness and a concerted effort to use the officedifficult challenges:o~f :h:er~------------------------7 office not only to improve the without situations of marginalized hesitation groups within Ireland but also and has to draw attention to global consistently The FulbrightAssociation crises. Mrs. Robinson was the stressed the is proud to present first head of state to visit need for action famine-stricken Somalia in in the struggle 1992 and also the first to go to to extend the illiam FulbrightPri~e Rwanda in the aftermath of full range of The J.W . l Understanding the genocide there. In human rights to for In ternationa recognition of her efforts in all citizens. Somalia, Mrs. Robinson Born in to received the Special CARE Ballina, County Humanitarian Award in Mayo, Ireland on 1993. May 21, 1944, Her humanitarian work Mary Robinson Mary Robinson as president, her was educated at background in human Trinity College, . Hi h Commissioner rights law, and her Dublin, where she United Nations g . ht uncompromising pursuit of received a Master for Human Rig s justice and equality made of Arts degree in her a prime candidate for 1970. She also October8, 1999 the position of United earned a Barrister- Nations high at-Law degree from commissioner for human the King's Inns, In recognitionof rights. As high Dublin, and a her contributionsto . commissioner, Master of Laws . tual understanding Mrs. Robinson is degree from furtheringmu responsible for Harvard University. amongpeoples overseeing the human At the age of 25, rights activities of the Mrs. Robinson was United Nations, in­ appointed Reid cluding promoting professor of universal enjoyment of constitutional and human rights, responding to human criminal law at Trinity inaugurated as the seventh rights violations, undertaking College, where she also served as president of Ireland. As president, she preventive human rights action, and lecturer in European community law. represented her country providing education and assistance in With her husband Nicholas, internationally, developing a new the field of human rights. Taking Mrs . Robinson founded the Irish sense of Ireland's economic, political, every opportunity to speak out on Centre for European Law in 1988. and cultural ties to other countries and human rights abuses as they occur, she From 1969 to 1989, Mary Robinson was cultures. Linking the history of the has recently expressed urgent concern a member of Seanad Eireann, the Great Irish Famine to today's nutrition, about conflicts in East Timar, Kosovo, Upper House of Parliament. She has poverty, and policy issues, she and Sierra Leone, among others . 2 Under Secretary of State Evelyn S. Liebertnan Pays Tribute to High Cotntnissioner Robinson Editor's Note: Evelyn S. Lieberman was what we all have in common is more sworn in as the first under secretary of fundamental than our differences. state for public diplomacy and public Although these shared values are as old affairs on Oct. 1, 1999. The new under as history, it was only a little more than secretary position was createdas a result of 50 years ago that the world came the reorganization of foreign affairs together to try to identify and codify agencies which merged the United States these values as international standards. Information Agency with the Department The result was the Universal Declaration of State. Under Secretary Lieberman, of Human Rights, which to this day Ronald J.Ross, M.D., president of the continues to serve as common ground in Fulbright Association, and Donald R. a fragmented world. Greene, president of The Coca-Cola As recent events in East Timar, Foundation, conducted the ceremony Kosovo, and Sierra Leone have honoring Mary Robinson. demonstrated, we have not yet fulfilled the Declaration's promise that "all igh Commissioner Robinson, human beings are born free and equal Mr. Greene, Dr. Ross, in dignity and rights." But such a H distinguished guests, thank you sober admission does not preclude our for joining us here today at the State De­ recognizing the tremendous progress partment for the presentation of the 1999 we have made. Each day, throughout UN High Commissioner for Human Rights J.William Fulbright Prize for Inter­ the world, courageous men, women, Mary Robinson and Under Secretary of State national Understanding. My name is and children speak out boldly on for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Evelyn Lieberman, and I am under behalf of the powerless. One of the Evelyn S. Lieberman, with the sculpture secretary of state for public diplomacy most significant of those voices is "Tribute," by Sergio Dolfi, presented to High and public affairs. In that position, Mary Robinson, the woman we honor Commissioner Robinson on behalf of which I have held now for exactly one here today. The Coca-Cola Company. week, my responsibilities include For Mary Robinson, the quest for oversight of the thousands of Fulbright human rights is not a vague ideal, but transformed by respect for human scholarships granted each year. My rather an urgent, practical mission. rights. As she has noted, anything less responsibilities also include sometimes From her days as a young senator than universal adherence to the basic having the opportunity to meet and talk campaigning on behalf of the rights of principles of human rights would to people I've read about and admired women in Ireland, through her term as diminish "our capacity to transmit these for years. This is definitely one of those Ireland's most progressive - and most values to succeeding generations." fine occasions. The Fulbright Program is popular - president, to her efforts in I look forward to working with the largest and best-known component her current role, Mrs. Robinson has been Mrs. Robinson to identify ways we can of American public diplomacy. This past a champion of those in need. Regardless use public diplomacy to advance and year, the United States provided nearly of place, culture, or circumstance, she promote human rights, particularly in $100 million to enable more than 4,500 has demanded that governments honor the field of human rights education. American and foreign teachers, scholars, in fact what they embrace in principle. If we want to make this a better students, and specialists to study and She has worked skillfully to promote world, we must support those who teach and conduct research in more than greater public understanding of dare to speak out in the face of hatred. 140 countries around the world. fundamental human rights, and in the We must encourage those who dare to The most successful exchange process pushing the world to pay tell the truth in the face of lies. That program in history, the Fulbright attention, to tell the truth, and to live up ultimately is what international Program has helped bring together and to its own values. Mrs. Robinson has understanding is all about. And that is promote better understanding among said that her own approach to human what Mary Robinson has brought to individuals, cultures, and even nations. rights is based on "an inner sense of her work as high commissioner. With greater international justice." As high commissioner, she has Thank you for your extraordinary understanding comes the appreciation translated that inner sense of justice into efforts to break down the barriers that that beyond race, creed, and nationality, a compelling vision of a world divide mankind. 3 1999 Fulbright Prize Ceremony Ronald J.Ross, M.D., F.A.C.R., president of the Fulbright Association; Donald R. Greene, president of The Coca-Cola Foundation;High Commissioner Mary Robinson; and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Evelyn S. Lieberman. Her Excellency Dr. Fawziya bint Nasser Al William B. Bader, assistant secretary of state for educationaland Farsi, under secretaryfor general education, cultural affairs, and Dr. Ross. Sultanate of Oman, member of the 1999 Fulbright Prize Selection Committee. R. Fenton-May, Fulbright Association boardmember and director of operations development, The Coca-Cola Company; FrederickG. Acker, vice president and president-elect of the Fulbright Association; High CommissionerRobinson; Under Secretary of State Lieberman;and Dr. Ross. 4 Fulbri ht Prize Address Mary Robinson Speaks to Fulbrighters am very honored to be the interest of young minds. New recipient of the 1999 Fulbright friendships. New hopes. I Prize for International New perceptions of the world. Understanding. I am grateful to the These are the products of Fulbright Association and the those minds. members of the international committee for having selected me. In The Fulbright Scholarship Program its short life, the roster of recipients of and the award I am receiving today are the prize is a distinguished one. named after a man who belonged to a Indeed, it is somewhat daunting to generation of exceptionally far-sighted find myself in the company of such visionaries. The Fulbright Program recipients as Nelson Mandela, began in the immediate aftermath of the Jimmy Carter, and Vaclav Havel. Second World War.
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