GUN CONTROL ORGANISATIONS & VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMMES

 

UK

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

 

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

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

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