Woman in news: Yoko Hayashi, U.N. anti-discrimination panel chair

Yoko Hayashi, a lawyer who has become the first Japanese chair of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 9, 2015. She has worked on the U.N. committee as a member since 2008. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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