Third International Conference on Women’s Safety: Building Inclusive Cities

This event will bring together international actors in the field of women’s safety for exchange and debate on key topics in current practice. A variety of sessions, including keynote presentations, skills-building workshops, panel presentations, and collective visioning exercises will maximize opportunities for knowledge-sharing, capacity-building and networking. This conference will build on the successes of its predecessors, the First International Seminar on Women's Safety, held in 2002, and the Second International Conference on Safer Cities for Women and Girls held in 2004, while striving to address current issues such as rapid urban population growth and its effect on socially excluded groups.

The Third International Conference on Women’s Safety is an important opportunity for representatives from women’s and community organizations, municipal and national governments, UN agencies, grassroots women, researchers, experts, and academics to work together and build upon the global movement towards the creation of safer and more gender-inclusive cities and communities. UN-Habitat, the Huairou Commission, UNIFEM and Red Mujer y Habitat de America Latina are supporting partners for this conference.

Objectives

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 Marginal 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, please consult the concept note of the event here.

Send your questions or comments on the conference to conference@femmesetvilles.org.