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Human Rights Human Wrongs - 6.30 – 9 p.m. on Thursday October 9th

Human Rights Human Wrongs

Celebrate Human Rights and to regret Human Wrongs

Free Evening event at St John’s Waterloo Road (Near roundabout)

6.30 – 9 p.m. on Thursday October 9th

Meal available at 6 p.m. for £4


Organised by

St. John’s Waterloo
Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI)
Christians Aware


Opening Speakers:

Bruce Kent Chair of Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI)
Vice President CND and Pax Christi

Juliet Lyon Director of the Prison Reform Trust

Maseh Mother of 18 year old schoolboy, maintaining innocence, member of London Against Injustice

Chair: Terry Drummond C.A. : Chairs London and Southwark Diocesan Penal Affairs Group on behalf of the Bishop of Southwark


Workshops pick up on themes from the opening speakers in respect of human rights. This December 10th marks the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It is intended that the workshops will allow for in depth discussion on issues raised by the opening speakers. Resource contributors for the various workshops will include Bruce Kent, PPMI; Christopher Jones and Aisha Maniar, London Guantanamo Campaign.

Health Access: the experience and affects of imprisonment and detention on physical, mental and emotional health.

Over Tariff: prisons are not holiday camps and many prisons serve very long sentences.

The English Prison Estate: politics, practises and finances of privatisation from a global perspective.

Youth, identity, guns and knife crime: are high profile issues. What are the issues of
demography and education to be addressed? Should we be concerned by ASBOs and joint enterprise convictions?

Organised by

St. John’s Waterloo
Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PPMI)
Christians Aware
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