- Have an important message to share
- Read everything you can about the United Nations
- Work closely with an organisation
- Attend meetings at the Australian Human Rights Commission
- Submit your side event proposal and write your speech
- Prepare to travel
- Read pre-briefing material and write 3 minute “interventions”
- Spend the week at the UN: Timetable
- Present at the UN
- Follow up: Australian Mission to the UN briefing, media
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
September 11, 2019
A guide to speaking at the United Nations
Today I presented a seminar to the School of Teacher Education titled "A guide to speaking at the United Nations" where I listed 10 steps: