GUN CONTROL ORGANISATIONS & VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMMES

UK

Infer Trust - The principal activities of The Infer Trust are to raise awareness of public health and safety issues with particular reference to the use of firearms and to offer support and advice to those affected by gun violence.

 

Crimestoppers - Crimestoppers is an independent UK-wide charity working to stop crime. Crimestoppers works for you, your family and your community.

MAMAA - Mothers against Murder and Aggression - a national registered charity which supports and campaigns on behalf of families and friends of murder victims

Miss Dorothy.com and Watch Over Me - The missdorothy.com website is a place for young people to learn and have fun. Dot Com, an internet cartoon character helps young people learn how to stay safe and to overcome bullying.  The charity's Watch Over Me programmes are a unique teaching resource devised to equip teenagers with clear strategies to deal with personal safety issues including a number relating to guns.

Mothers Against Guns - Mothers Against Guns calls for people to set up campaign groups in their communities, to see an end to Britain's rising gun culture and lobby the government to introduce stiffer penalties for people convicted of gun-related crimes.

Penny Lane  - The Penny Lane Development Trust is an innovative project in Liverpool that represents and includes its community in the design and delivery of a Beatles Visitor Centre, Youth and Community Centre and an Outdoor Sports facility.  One of its activities is an Anti-Gun Crime Project.

 

SaferDerbyshire - Crime, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour is an important consideration in the quality of life of local communities.  Across Derbyshire, different agencies are committed to working in partnership to reduce crime and risks to safety and to maintain quality of life for people who live, work and visit the area.  The site provides information about local Crime and Disorder Partnerships, partner agencies and access to community safety advice. 

 

Streetwise - Streetwise is a gang and gun crime prevention resource for young people. Streetwiseinfo.co.uk is a live and interactive website and allows young people to seek advice from professionals and ex-gang members 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you need advice, information or guidance about your problems please go to the Streetwise chat room.

 

Victim Support - Independent charity which helps people cope with the effects of crime

Justice4Victims - justice4victims.org is "a web-based organization which we intend to build and run with you.  Its aim is to provide a service for all victims and potential victims of violent crime who feel denied justice and protection, and as a platform from which to launch and co-ordinate active campaigning for changes in British justice - changes which finally atone for the effect of violence on the victims, and the danger of violence to the public."

AUSTRALIA

Gun Control Australia

AUSTRIA

Waffen Weg

 

BRAZIL 

  AJA – an educational NGO which provides job training, promotes disarmament campaigns, civic, health and environment education to underprivileged youths and adults

  Desarme – a website in Portuguese and Spanish focussing on Latin American issues

  Viva Rio – ‘In the areas of Public Security and Human Rights, Viva Rio works to reduce and control violent actions by providing conflict mediation’

  Instituto Sou da Paz

 

CANADA

Coalition for Gun Control – offers local and international perspectives and information

 

GERMANY

Winnenden Families Campaign and Sportmordwaffen (both sites in German) - two campaigns to tighten gun laws in Germany following mass shootings in schools

JAPAN

Stop Gun Caravan

SOUTH AFRICA

Gun Control Alliance – a coalition of groups involved in gun control

TURKEY

UMUT Foundation

USA

  Brady Campaign (formerly Handgun Control) and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence – the largest handgun control organisation

  Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (Washington DC)

  HELP Network – the leading proponent of the public health model for reducing gun injury

  Handgun-Free America – a non-profit organization dedicated to the ban of private handgun ownership in the USA

  Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence

  Kids and Guns, USA – ‘We believe that all adults have a responsibility to protect children from gun-related deaths and injuries’

  Million Mom March Foundation - the largest national grassroots organization working for common sense gun laws

  Mothers Against Guns - a non-profit and non-partisan organization founded in New York City in March, 1994

  Physicians for Social Responsibility – one of their many campaigns is for gun control

  Protest Easy Guns – 'Concerned citizens, like you, who believe that it is too easy to purchase guns in America'

  Stop the NRA - counteracting the NRA and its blacklist of gun control supporters

  Violence Policy Center (VPC) – prolific researchers and publishers

     VPC’s information on the NRA