"I feel very privileged to be invited to speak, it's a special occasion to speak in front of your own community I think," Ms Geddes said.

"The organisers have recognised it's important to create this space that feels really inclusive for all communities in Griffith."

Ms Geddes is an Australian Human Rights Lawyer and is currently the head of Legal Action Worldwide's Sri Lanka office. She clerked for Chief Justice Mogoeng of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and for Justice Tarfusser of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands.

From seeing human rights in action in international contexts Ms Geddes thinks Australia needs to work on how we have conversations about human rights.

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"I think what I want to talk (on International Women's Day) is human rights at home and about how it's the stuff that happens on a daily basis, without us thinking about it like who might get served first at a cafe or be able to get a bank loan, or have access to a lawyer at the police station and who might not," she explained.

"And I guess what these types of things might mean for women in our community and to think about how we can have that conversation to change it.

"I think Australia is often quite good at talking about violence against women in other places in the world but we aren't necessarily very good at talking about it at home."

From a young age, a strong sense of social justice was instilled in her from the influence of her father, Ian Geddes who owns Cater and Blumer in Griffith and her mother Jenny Geddes who is a recently retired TAFE counsellor.

She says working in Griffith in the criminal justice system has been crucial to her understanding the complexities of structural disadvantage in Griffith and Australia.

"As much as I've done all of these really amazing things, some of the work I've done at Cater and Blumer has definitely been some of my most formative and important experiences," Ms Geddes said.

The Women on Fire event to celebrate International Women's Day is free to everyone and all are welcome. Gates open at Pioneer Park Museum at 12pm until 2.30pm Monday and guests are invited to bring a plate of food to share.

"It's an important day but I'd really like to think of every day as International Women's Day in some respects because gender inequality and violence against women are things that happen every day. It's not just worth talking about on the 8th of March."

Murrumbidgee Regional High School are hosting two special guest speakers for their International Women's Day event too with agronomist Kate Callaghan and 2017 NSW Trainee of the Year Madison Coelli speaking to students Monday.

There will also be a girls-only screening of the movie Hidden Figures.

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