Minutes of campaign committee meetings, including notations from Mary Robinson, Nick Robinson and/or Bride Rosney. Also includes 7-page list of names of contributors to campaign and amount contributed.

Ref: P143/4/1/1/2

Material relating to the press reception and official opening of Mary Robinson (MR)'s presidential campaign committee headquarters at the committee's headquarters, 15 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, 25/07/1990. Includes invites, some replies including from Darina Allen's secretary, Rosalie Dunne, list of campaign committee and trustees of the MR Election fund, press launch invitation list, press release, copies of thank-yous sent to attendees, MR campaign stickers and visitors book with signatures for the launch itself.

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Folder marked "Briefing on the Great Lakes", consisting of faxed correspondence and reports, including situation reports "Kisangani, Congo/Zaire", faxed from Dominic Mac Sorley, Country Director to Jack Finucane, Regional Director, CONCERN, 02/05/1997, 05/05/1997, 07/05/1997; fax from John O'Shea, GOAL to MR asking that she try and convince Irish Government not to assist Rwandan Government until their integrity had been established, and including official statement from GOAL and extracts from newspaper reports, 06/05/1997; photocopy of faxed press release from International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC), stating 10 volunteers of the Zairian Red Cross had been killed in Kenge, Republic of Zaire, 07/05/1997; fax from Donal Denham, Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, relating to ICRC briefing on Great Lakes, 07/05/1997; report faxed from Polly Markandya, Medecins Sans Frontieres UK, 28/05/1997.

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Constitution Review Group publication "International Relations", no date - may be linked to publications in P143/4/4/7/13

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Report "Attitudes Toward The Status of Women: Implications For Equal Employment Opportunity", report to the Department of Labour, Margaret Fine-Davis, Trinity College Dublin, Feb 1977.

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Photocopy of book/journal "Employment-seeking Emigrations of the Poles World-wide XIX and XX C", 1975 [may have been used for reference when researching the Irish Diaspora ahead of Famine Commemorations or her address to the Houses of the Oireachtas, 1995, "Cherishing the Diaspora"]; printed photograph of plaque in Mexico honouring the Irish Soldiers of St Patrick's Battalion [Batallón de San Patricio] who were executed in the Mexican-American War in 1847, which lists the names of the executed beginning with Captain John O'Reilly.

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Booklet: "The 1997 Executive Seminar on Preventing Conflicts: Past Record and Future Challenges" executive summary, Peter Wallensteen, Uppsala University, Dept of Peace and conflict research.

Ref: P143/4/4/8/1

Briefing notes, background information, reports and other research material used by Mary Robinson ahead of meetings and for reference, 1997 and other unidentified periods during her term as President of Ireland [04/12/1990-12/09/1997], including material sent by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Ref: P143/4/4/8

Material including background information and reports on Human Rights and Humanitarian crises including Somalia, Rwanda and Great Lakes Region. Includes typed document "Dublin Round Table on Promotion of the Rule of Law through Effective Training for Human Rights Field Tasks", 28-29 Nov 1996; articles/papers "The role and responsibility of the Secretary-General in Peace Operations", "Preventing Humanitarian Crises", and text of address "Managing conflict after the Cold War", at Catholic Institute for International Relations AGM, 13/10/1995 by Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun; text/address "Prevention of Humanitarian Crises - an NGO Perspective", Justin Kilcullen, Trócaire, Irish National Delegate to the Liaison Committee of European NGOs, National Forum on Development Aid, July 1996; paper "Ethics and Development Aid", Roger C Riddell, Overseas Development Institute, London, 10/1995; faxed Great Lakes UNHCR briefing from Donal Denham, Irish Permanent Mission to the United Nations (PMUN) 19/11/1996 and communiqués, Mission d'Irlande [PMUN] various updates on Eastern Zaire 13-17/11/1996, and "Refugee Reintegration in the Great Lakes Region, with Special Focus on Rwanda", 23/11/1996; "A Global Foreign Policy for Europe", briefing for 1996 European Union Inter-Governmental Conference from Oxfam in Ireland and Concern Worldwide; two faxed reports from Jack Finucane, Concern Worldwide, to Bride Rosney following his return from Rwanda/Zaire, 20-22/11/1996; report "Rwanda United Nations Situation Report September 1996", Office of the Residence Coordinator, Kigali, Rwanda, 23/10/1996; briefing material from UNHCR (via PMUN?) on map of refugees in the Great Lakes Region, IRIN Emergency update on Eastern Zaire (17-18/11/1996), World Food Programme weekly report, 15/11/1996, statement issued following Special Meeting of European Union Development and Humanitarian Aid Ministers, 7/11/1996, update notes on situation in GLR and UNHCR Eastern Zaire Crisis 19/11/1996; faxed copy of "Presidency Statement by Minister of State Gay Mitchell, TD, to the European Parliament on the Situation in Eastern Zaire 13 November 1996", sent to BR by Margaret Hennessy, Development Cooperation Division, Department of foreign Affairs, 15/11/1996; photocopy of faxed situation update on Eastern Zaire, sent from Dominic MacSorley, Concern 7/11/1996; "Developing World", Irish Times supplement report, 13/11/1996.

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Booklet: "Special Meeting of the European Council, Dublin 5 October 1996"

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