Kathy Townsend
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Kathy Townsend spoke Wednesday, 6 September with Earth Negotiations Bulletin editors Peter Doran and Steve Wise. She reviewed the campaign for a conference of commitments and its early results:






The need for a conference of commitments (1:11)

national commitments made in the early days of the Beijing conference (3:11)

Australia's own strengths and weaknesses on commitments to women (1:49)

Reasons that some countries will not make commitments but cannot say they were not aware of the idea (:50)

Australia's lobbying efforts to convince countries to make commitments (:28) and

Commitments are the way to measure the Women's Conference results.(:50)

Townsend is head of Australia's Office of the Status of Women and Deputy Head of the Australian Delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women.

The interviews are formatted as RealAudio files.

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