Policing Women Globally 2002

This is the third Australasian Women and Policing Conference and the 40th Annual Training Conference of the IAWP. This conference will provide an exciting and unique opportunity for everyone interested in improving policing for women.

This is the third Australasian Women and Policing Conference and the 40th Annual Training Conference of the IAWP. This conference will provide an exciting and unique opportunity for everyone interested in improving policing for women.
It will be an interactive forum aiming to:
- examine and share models of policing from around the world with the potential to improve policing for women and children;
- inform Australian policing of issues for women and policing globally;
- provide a platform for meetings of women police and law enforcement officers from around the globe;
- provide an opportunity for academic debate and recommendations for further research into women and policing on a global scale; and
- develop and expand the global networks of women and policing.

Attendance at the conference will attract Continuing Education Units certified by East Kentucky University, USA.

Who Should Attend?
Police officers, police practitioners, law enforcement officers, federal agents, customs, immigration, quarantine, and corrections officers, investigators, managers, police administrators, lawyers, researchers, academics, activists, students, and advocates for women's human rights.

Conference Themes
The conference will examine a broad range of issues, including:
- women in regions of conflict and women as peacekeepers;
- international comparisons of women in policing and law enforcement around the globe;
- investigating and prosecuting war crimes, including rape and genocide;
- trafficking in women;
- international networks for women in policing and law enforcement;
- improving the status of women within policing and law enforcement;
- all forms of violence against women including domestic violence, sexual assault and female genital mutilation;
- increasing diversity within policing and law enforcement environments;
- the roles of police and law enforcement officers in protecting women's human rights; and
- best practice in policing for women.

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