Nelson Mandela
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Sep 11, 2026
Mary HarveyGUEST
So the Center for Sport and Human Rights, um, was launched in twenty eighteen by an incredible woman named Mary Robinson.
Mary HarveyGUEST
So she's the former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and now chairs The Elders, which is an organization founded by Nelson Mandela and then by Kofi Annan, um, that are former heads of state around the world, and they are involved in, um, key discussions, uh, in the world today, be it nuclear non-proliferation to environmental crisis to lots of things.
Mary HarveyGUEST
Um, but back then, Mary Robinson, um, who's been a warrior for human rights and climate justice her, her whole life, um, started asking questions of sport and saying: "When are you going to have accountability for human rights harms that are happening as the result of your activities, and specifically your, your big events?" This is in the wake of, you know, twenty fourteen-
David GassHOST
Hmm
Marisa PeerGUEST
No puedo luchar ni huir, pero puedo fluir.
Marisa PeerGUEST
Nelson Mandela pasó veintisiete años en confinamiento solitario.
Marisa PeerGUEST
Ni siquiera podemos pasar tres semanas sin decir: «Es un infierno, es una pesadilla, estoy encerrado, mis hijos me están volviendo loco, quiero divorciarme, no lo soporto».
Marisa PeerGUEST
Pero cumplió veintisiete años, ¿sabes cómo? Porque dijo: «Todo el mundo en mi país está en la cárcel, solo que yo estoy en una prisión diferente a la de ellos.
Armstrong AlexisGUEST
I did not have the star gazing.
Armstrong AlexisGUEST
Of course, as I read more, I got more into the Nelson Mandela's and the Steve Biko's.
Armstrong AlexisGUEST
I actually loved the Steve Biko's story.
Armstrong AlexisGUEST
And I got into the Fidel Castro's and so on.
Mary HarveyGUEST
So the Center for Sport and Human Rights was launched in 2018 by an incredible woman named Mary Robinson.
Mary HarveyGUEST
So she's the former president of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and now chairs the Elders, which is an organization founded by Nelson Mandela and then by Kofi Annan that are former heads of state around the world.
Mary HarveyGUEST
And they are involved in key discussions in the world today, be it nuclear nonproliferation to environmental
David GossHOST
crisis to lots of
Dan MulhallGUEST
Looking back over the stretch of twenty-five years, it's also appropriate, I think, to reflect on the wider impact of those dreadful atrocities.
Dan MulhallGUEST
The attack on the Twin Towers brought to an end an all-too-brief period of positivity in global affairs that had followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and a few months later, the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, which signaled the end of the apartheid era in South Africa.
Dan MulhallGUEST
In this country, we added to that sequence of good news with the paramilitary ceasefires in 1994 and ultimately the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and I had the privilege of being part of the Irish government delegation on that great day when peace was brought to our island.
Dan MulhallGUEST
Now, Al-Qaeda's attacks on America caused a definite mood swing and ushered in what came to be known as the War on Terror, and that resulted in prolonged conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that wreaked havoc in those two countries.
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Dan MulhallGUEST
I mean, you think about it, like I, I, I mentioned in my speech that, you know, the fall of the Berlin Wall, everyone said, "The world's changing.
Dan MulhallGUEST
Like, the Cold War's over.
Dan MulhallGUEST
Everything is much better now." Then you had the release of Nelson Mandela.
Dan MulhallGUEST
Then you had the peace process here, the ceasefires in 1994, and then the Good Friday Agreement in '98.
J SbuHOST
Listen to this song.
J SbuHOST
This was for Nelson Mandela.
J SbuHOST
We're encouraging the nation to come together.
Stacey NormanHOST
Nelson Mandela day Yes Not for the man directly
J SbuHOST
Stacey came on the vocals I produced the beat This is what came out, right? So that you can know that we too can do this thing That you guys do
Stacey NormanHOST
For T's and C's 2.0 Okay Just listen, listen, listen There's
Angel JonesGUEST
But I always grew up never being proud of the colour of my skin or my flag or my country.
Angel JonesGUEST
And so when Mandela was released and, you know, I was at Vasti then, you know, really feeling finally that, you know, our world was free.
Angel JonesGUEST
And I had the opportunity, thank goodness, I had an Irish passport as well as South African one and I could go and work abroad.
Angel JonesGUEST
And so, you know, use that time to go and experience.
Callum McDougallHOST
I always...
Callum McDougallHOST
I don't know if this is a Mandela effect or whatever it was.
Callum McDougallHOST
I always thought...
Callum McDougallHOST
He just called it the real world's champion.
Deborah AdosoHOST
Reagan guided this reign until he turned 18, after which he served as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador fighting HIV and AIDS.
Deborah AdosoHOST
Nelson Mandela and Libyan leader Mohammed Gaddafi both bereaved and befriended the young monarch with Gaddafi supporting the royal family for years before his own death in 2011.
Deborah AdosoHOST
Ugandan President Yori Massaveni asserted that Oyo left a young child born out of wedlock and the kingdom's Prime Minister Calvin Armstrong had previously announced the existence of an heir.
Deborah AdosoHOST
Committee members instead opted for King Jana to ensure stability as traditionalist favours an adult leader of another child on the throne.
David DeSolaHOST
A quarter of a century later, it's at more than 52,000.
David DeSolaHOST
The world lost many historical figures since the September 11th attacks, including Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Antonin Scalia, Prince, George H.W. Bush, Steve Jobs, John McCain, Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and David Bowie.
David DeSolaHOST
Scientists discovered gravitational waves and the Higgs boson, recorded the first images of a black hole, and pioneered the field of gene editing.
David DeSolaHOST
We collectively as a human race lived through the coronavirus pandemic, which killed more than 6.8 million people around the world, according to the final data collected by the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University.
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