Start Date : 22 Nov 10   End Date : 24 Nov 10 Location: New Delhi India

Women in Cities International and JAGORI, a women's training, documentation, communication and resource centre for a feminist consciousness, are co-organizing the Third International Conference on Women's Safety in collaboration with the Huairou Commission, UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women), UN-HABITAT, and other local and international partners to address the safety needs of today's female urban population. The conference will bring together a variety of actors from the international community working in the fields of safe cities for women, women's rights and violence against women and girls to build upon their collective experience through capacity-building, knowledge-sharing and visioning activities.
The objectives of the Third International Women’s Safety Conference are:

• To review, analyze and consolidate different approaches/tools aimed at building safe and inclusive cities free of violence against women, 
• To build strong capacity within local-level civil society in order to mobilize community-wide support for action towards building safe and inclusive cities free of violence against women,
• To assess and disseminate lessons learned and good practices developed on enhancing women’s inclusion and right to the city.

Topics

• Urban Planning and Design
• Women’s Safety and the City       
• Involving the Most Marginalized in the Safe Cities for Women Movement  
• Policies and Resources
• Evaluating Safe Cities for Women Initiatives      
• Women’s Safety and Public Transportation
• Artistic/creative Expressions of Women’s Safety
• Inner City Issues Around Women’s Safety
• Using the Gender Equality and Inclusion Lens
• Water, Sanitation, and Women’s Safety

For further information: https://www.qvc.qc.ca/womens-safety/Welcome.htm
Call for registration: http://www.qvc.qc.ca/womens-safety/Registration.htm