Editing Svend Robinson (section)

==Post-political career==

Since leaving politics, Robinson was employed by the [[British Columbia Government and Service Employees' Union]] as an arbitrator and advocate.<ref name=leaveshome>[http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=be098032-f85e-4288-9dd2-0bab2bcc1ecb&k=31157 "Svend Robinson leaves home"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512065640/http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=be098032-f85e-4288-9dd2-0bab2bcc1ecb&k=31157 |date=2014-05-12 }}. [[canada.com]], April 19, 2007.</ref> He also served on the NDP's federal executive as co-chair of the party's [[LGBT]] Committee.

Robinson took a position in 2007 with the global trade union federation [[Public Services International]] in [[Switzerland]],<ref name=leaveshome/> where he moved with his partner Max Riveron. He led PSI's work on a range of issues including climate change, pensions, and trade. In 2009, he was co-chair of the International LGBT Human Rights Conference in [[Copenhagen]],<ref name=yahoo /> and received an award from the Conseil québécois des gais et lesbiennes for his human rights activism.<ref>{{cite web|title=Svend Robinson Honoured by Conseil Quebecois des Gais et Lesbiennes for Human Rights Work|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-216078261.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611073056/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-216078261.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2014|publisher=States News Service|via=HighBeam|access-date=23 February 2014|date=October 20, 2009}}</ref>

He served as a consultant with the [[Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria|Global Fund to Fight AIDS]], Tuberculosis and Malaria, coordinating their parliamentary relations.<ref name=yahoo /> He retired from the organization when he reached its mandatory retirement age of 65.

In 2020–21, Robinson was the J.S. Woodsworth resident scholar at [[Simon Fraser University]]. The position was named after the former [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation|CCF]] leader and MP [[J. S. Woodsworth]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dickert|first=Chris|title=Former MP Svend Robinson to join SFU as J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar - SFU News - Simon Fraser University|url=http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/07/former-mp-svend-robinson-to-join-sfu-as-j-s--woodsworth-resident.html|access-date=2020-07-29|website=SFU News}}</ref>