Wednesday, October 24, 2007  
Serena Hotel
‘Response of police women to violence against women in Islamic societies’
08:30  Opening prayer
Remarks from the Chairs
Chairs:  General.Sharifa and Shukria Barkzai
08:40 Introduction Keynote Speaker
Afghan police woman
08:45 Keynote speech
Sima Samar, Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
‘The police role in preventing violence against women and the particular role of police women’
09:30 Refreshment Break
10:00

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)

12:00  Lunch
13:00 International visitors and provincial policewomen go to the Police Academy
Kabul-based policewomen are taken home
13:30 Academy program presented by Academy policewomen
15:00 End of day