Ireland’s Mary Robinson says being ‘an elder’ is about teaching the next generation, but also listening to them

Mary Robinson was the first female president of Ireland in in the 1990s. Later, she became the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. In recent years, she’s been chair of “The Elders,” a group founded by Nelson Mandela, with a simple mandate: to share wisdom and experience to help solve the world’s toughest problems. Robinson shares some of that wisdom with host Marco Werman.This story originally aired on Dec. 23, 2022.

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