Category: Ita’s World

The International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva is showing a temporary exhibition entitled Walls Between People from 24 September 2008 to 25 January 2009. Based upon the book “Walls between People” by Alexandra Novosseloff and Frank Neisse, the displays are presented in a unique way providing photographs and testimonials whilst physically experiencing the presence of the walls. Geographical mobility redefines new territories, but far from suppressing political barriers, it creates new barriers that are harder to…

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Born in 1944 in Ballina, Co. Mayo, Mary Robinson n?e Bourke was inaugurated as first woman President of Ireland, in Dublin Castle, on 3 December 1990. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), King’s Inns and Harvard University. Lawyer, human rights activist and politician, as member of Seanad Eireann (1969-89), she became known for her legal work in many constitutional cases before both Irish and European courts during the 1970s. In 1969 she became Reid professor of Constitutional…

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