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)

The interviews are formatted as RealAudio files.

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