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‘Response of police women to violence against women in Islamic societies’
Remarks from the Chairs
Chairs: General.Sharifa and Shukria Barkzai
Afghan police woman
Sima Samar, Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
‘The police role in preventing violence against women and the particular role of police women’
Panel session
Chair: Afghan member of Medica Mondiale
Lalaina (UNIFEM) ‘Police support for women’s referral centres’
Pakistani police woman, ‘Pakistan’s police response to violence against women’
UNFPA ‘Family guidance centres’
Orzala Ashraf ‘Women’s shelters’ (TBC)
Azar Yoon ‘Partnerships between police women and civil society as a strategy for preventing violence against women’(TBC)
Kabul-based policewomen are taken home