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Mary Robinson - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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you'll notice that in France that SO great culture, they don't say human rights, they say:MAN rights, even the french language is far more SEXIST than english where objects are it, in french they are he or she!. AND, not to forget : when they wrote the human rights bill at the french revolution (1789 )? they REALLY meant man, not woman who were forbiden to attemptthe meeting of parliament!(check it out)
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Mary Robinson was the first woman president of Ireland 1990-1997 and former UN High Commisioner for Human Rights. As a member of "The Elders", Mary Robinson speaks about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, gender oppression and what we can do to help the world. For more info: http://www.theelders.org/elders/robinson.aspx