Open-ended intergovernmental expert group meeting to develop supplementary rules specific to the treatment of women in detention and in custodial and non-custodial settings
Bangkok, Thailand, 23–26 November 2009

WHO/Europe participated in this meeting, whose aim was to develop supplementary United Nations rules specific to the treatment of women in detention and in custodial and non-custodial settings consistent with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (the Tokyo Rules).

The rules are intended to strengthen international norms for the treatment of women prisoners, which encompass their health, gender sensitivity and child care. The United Nations rules agreed at the expert meeting in Bangkok were to be submitted to the 12th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Salvador, Brazil, and to the 19th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in April 2010. The rules will then be submitted for final approval to the Sixty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly in November 2010.