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Items in this section are to third party websites only. There is a link to the events & notices page of listed organisations featured in the section.

All enquiries should be directed to the originating organisations and not to 4WardEver.

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Third Party Link-Ups:

Action for Prisoners’ Families Updated
Action for Prisoners’ Families (APF) is the national membership organisation for those interested in the well being of prisoners’ families.
AFP wants every prisoner’s family to get the support they would like and need. They work to reduce the negative impact of imprisonment on prisoners’ families.

European Civil Liberties
ECLN shares common objectives of seeking to create a European society based on freedom and equality, of fundamental civil liberties and personal and political freedoms, of free movement and freedom of information, and equal rights for minorities.

Fawcett Society NEW
Fawcett is the UK’s leading campaign for equality between women and men. Where there’s an inequality gap between women and men they’re working to close it. Their roots stretch back to 1866, when Millicent Fawcett began her lifetime’s work leading the peaceful campaign for women’s votes.

Howard League for Penal Reform
The Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest penal reform charity in the UK. It was established in 1866 and is named after John Howard, one of the first prison reformers.

Innocence Network UK
INUK was establised because the problem of overturning the wrongful conviction of factually innocent people was not sufficiently resolved by the creation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the body set up in the wake of notorious cases such as the Guildford 4 and the Birmingham 6 to investigate alleged cases of miscarriage of justice.

Institute of Race Relations
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to carry out research, publish and collect resources on race relations throughout the world.

Liberty Human Rights
Liberty is also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties. Founded in 1934, it is a cross-party, non-party membership organisation at the heart of the movement for fundamental rights and freedoms in England & Wales.

Mental Health Foundation
Founded in 1949, the Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live.

Prison Reform Trust
The state of our prisons is a fair measure of the state of our society. The Prison Reform Trust works to ensure they are a just, humane and effective.

The Sentencing Project NEW
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration. The Project was founded in 1986 to provide defense lawyers with sentencing advocacy training and to reduce the reliance on incarceration.

Standing Items:

The following are long-term items retained here for an unspecified period

American Civil Liberties Union Updated
The ACLU has evolved in the 1920′s years from a small group of idealists into the premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. With more than 500,000 members, nearly 200 staff attorneys, thousands of volunteer attorneys and offices throughout the nation United States.

Anti Slavery NEW
Anti-Slavery International works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world. Although this exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are sold like objects, forced to work for little or no pay and are at the mercy of their “employers”.

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative NEW
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan, international non-governmental organisation, mandated to ensure the practical realisation of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth.

INJUSTICE Film Screenings
Injustice is a documentary feature film that follows the struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody. Since 1969 thousands of people have died in police custody in England.

IndyMedia UK
IndyMedia’s comprehensive listings of events held all over the United Kingdom.

Communities of Resistance May Be Unavailable
Communities of Resistance (CoRe) is a new grassroots initiative that aims to stop prison expansion in Britain. They oppose building new prisons, because prisons do not make communities safer. Their long-term aim is to build a vibrant and broad-based movement to end the violence of incarceration.

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