Former Irish President Mary Robinson will say this evening (Friday 6 May) that the Arab Spring uprisings are a reminder that human rights are as relevant and necessary today as they have ever been.
The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will be giving the keynote address at the Amnesty International 50th anniversary conference, to be held in Belfast this weekend. The speech will be delivered to a crowd of one thousand Amnesty International activists and members of the public gathered at Queen’s University Belfast. Mary Robinson will discuss the following topics (and can be quoted):
On the “Arab Spring”
“Corrupt dictatorships, economic decline, rising unemployment and grinding poverty as well as emerging demographic factors such as relatively large percentages of highly educated but dissatisfied youth populations have all been key to the developments of recent months from Tunisia to Egypt, from Yemen to Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and beyond.
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