New York activist leader stands by Pacific women

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Updated November 24, 2009 10:02:07

Colette Tamko may co-facilitate the global Gender Equality Architecture Reform Campaign - comprising of more than 400 organisations working towards a stronger women's agency at the United Nations - but the rest of her CV is also an impressive read.

She has worked in the Food and Agriculture Organisation office in New York and, most recently, as the Information Services Coordinator with the World Federalist Movement-Coalition for the International Criminal Court, New York. Ms Tamko also manages the Gender and Governance Program at the Women's Environment and Development Organisation, which includes work on the Untied Nations reform among other initiatives.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Colette Tamko, New York-based attorney and advocate for legal reform of gender discriminatory laws, human rights issues, food security and HIV/AIDS

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