Natasha Stott-Despoja - Streets of Your Town

Today on Streets of Your Town podcast, we talk to former Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja about her appointment to a top United Nations role aimed at ending discrimination against women. This interview is brought to you in conjunction with Griffith University's Gender Equity Research Network, as a special co-production to mark the international campaign of 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Natasha Stott-Despoja will begin her four-year term in January as one of 23 independent experts monitoring the efforts of countries around the world to improve gender equality. She tells us how the need to protect women's rights is even greater in the wake of coronavirus, and how she keenly feels her responsibility in her new role as the only expert on the committee from the Oceania region.

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Today on Streets of Your Town podcast, we talk to former Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja about her appointment to a top United Nations role aimed at ending discrimination against women. This interview is brought to you in conjunction with Griffith University's Gender Equity Research Network, as a special co-production to mark the international campaign of 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Natasha Stott-Despoja will begin her four-year term in January as one of 23 independent experts monitoring the efforts of countries around the world to improve gender equality. She tells us how the need to protect women's rights is even greater in the wake of coronavirus, and how she keenly feels her responsibility in her new role as the only expert on the committee from the Oceania region.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.