Women‘s safety has been defined in various ways, but the essence of these definitions is a reduction in gender based violence including women‘s fear of crime. This includes, first of all, creating safe public spaces, where women can move freely. Women‘s safety also includes freedom from poverty, and ensuring that women have safe access to water and sanitation services, as well as other public infrastructure and amenities. Freedom from abuse, domestic violence and sexual harassment at the workplace are also essential ingredients of women‘s safety. Finally, a sense of selfworth, along with financial security and independence, are also seen as integral to women‘s safety. Strategies, policies and practices to ensure and enhance women‘s safety must aim, first of all, to prevent perpetration or victimisation. This can be done, inter alia, by improving knowledge and changing attitudes that correspond to the origins of domestic or sexual violence; and by ensuring that women and girls participate fully in community life and in local decisionmaking processes. A safe city for women is a safe city for all.