In 1995, Robinson attended the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, participating in a hunger strike by women from developing nations to bring attention to the need for assistance to eliminate poverty and for debt relief from developed nations. Her concerns were that small island nations in the Caribbean due to size and environmental factors were vulnerable under existing trade policies and that the vulnerability adversely impacted women to a greater extent, because women were often "viewed as a source of cheap exploitable labour". She subsequently assisted in the planning events for the 1995 World Conference on Women held in Beijing and the follow-up conferences held in 2005 and 2010.