Pressure Group Campaigns

• What is it?

  • an organisation which will campaign for change in the law or for new policies to be introduced to tackle issues
• The Howard League For Penal Reform: Access to Justice Denied Campaign

  • campaign for less crime, safer communities, fewer people in prison, help ordinary people get equal access to the legal system
  • transformed prisons, advocate for fair treatment, mass media coverage
  • legal and budget cuts, court closures
• British Lung Foundation

  • want to prevent lung disease, raise awareness
  • use their website, donations, support groups
  • made it so children with asthma have emergency inhalers at school
  • Children and Families Act 2014: illegal to smoke in cars while children are passengers
• Amnesty International: Stop Torture Campaign

  • adoption and implementation of measures to protect people from torture and bring the perpetrators to justice
  • website, make people aware of their rights, lobby parliament
  • supported torture victims to get justice
  • pressure that resulted in the UN Convention Against Torture
  • laws against torture almost everywhere