OSCE Side Event: Empowering Women for Justice: Advancing Gender Equality in Organized Crime Prevention and Exit Strategies

General event

Date:
Location:
Online and the Permanent Mission of Malta to the UN, New York
Organized by:
OSCE Chairpersonship 2024, Permanent Mission of Malta to the United Nations and the OSCE Secretariat
Source:
OSCE Secretariat, Transnational Threats Department
Fields of work:
Policing, Gender equality

About

This side event provides an opportunity to discuss the roles that women can and are playing in organized crime groups, and how they can be better identified and targeted through gender-sensitive prevention and exit programmes. It will bring together representatives of international organizations, governments and civil society from across the OSCE area.  

By sharing experiences and good practices, speakers and participants will identify and reflect upon:

  • The roles women play in organized crime groups across different criminal markets, and the link between women’s victimization and their criminal behaviour;
  • The risk factors and vulnerabilities that make women susceptible to recruitment into criminal networks and how to devise prevention programmes that effectively target and include women and girls;
  • How to design exit initiatives that respond to the particular circumstances and support needs of women;
  • The importance of collecting sex-disaggregated data on transnational organized crime.

Register by 8th March here. 

Resources

Study / report

Understanding the Role of Women in Organized Crime

DateDate
Content

Concept note & agenda

DateDate 4 March 2024