Improving Policing for Women in the Asia Pacific Region

Date: 8/20/2005 Time: three days Event Type: Global Issues

Description: The Fourth conference in the Australasian Women and Policing series of conferences is being held in Darwin from 21 to 24 August 2005. The Australasian Council of Women and Policing hosts these conferences every three years.

This conference will build on the outcomes from the 2002 Women and Policing Globally conference held in Canberra and will focus on how policing can be improved in the Asia Pacific Region. Delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Asia will explore how policing can better protect women’s human rights and strategies to improve the number of women in key decision making positions within policing.

Policing plays a critical role in women’s lives. Without a policing service that responds effectively to women, women are not free from violence, they are not protected from exploitation, and they cannot thrive; the community cannot flourish.

Women's status within policing is key to improving how policing responds to women. This conference will give policing in the Asia Pacific region an opportunity to examine how their police services can better respond to women, both to the women within policing and how policing services meet women’s needs. Examples will be drawn from Australia, the Pacific and Asia to compare best practice and provide strategies for the future.

This conference will explore three main themes: Women as decision makers in policing; improving the police response to women, and creating women’s policing networks in the Asia Pacific Region.

Location: Holiday Inn, Darwin, Australia, NA

Contact: Helen McDermott

Phone: 0417231838 E-Mail: helenmcd@ozemail.com.au

URL: http://www.auspol-women.asn.au

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