The Female Prisoners Welfare Project (FPWP) is a registered charity established in 1986 to provide support for females of all ethnic origins and nationalities within the UK criminal justice system.
Hibiscus is a branch of FPWP and was set up in 1991 to address the special needs of foreign national women imprisoned in the UK.
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The Female Prisoners Welfare Project Hibiscus (FPWP Hibiscus) is looking for an outstanding Executive Director to lead the charity. Application closing date: 5pm, 4th May 2012. Follow the links for full job description, person's specification ...
No Way Out For Foreign National Women Behind Bars Too many vulnerable foreign national women are locked up for non-violent crimes and have often been trafficked or coerced into offending, according to a joint briefing by the Prison Reform Trust and Hibiscus.Women from foreign ...
Watch Hibiscus give oral evidence to the Justice Committee at the House of Commons on proposed changes to Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences. The Sentencing Council consulted Hibiscus for their research into sentencing drugs mules [more...]
Human trafficking fears as key UK staff are lost David Cameron's promise to tackle trafficking said to be in disarray after an exodus of expert Home Office staff. (Mark Townsend, home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday 14 May 2011 20.49 BST) [more...]
Hibiscus response to the Government Green Paper Female Prisoners Welfare Project (FPWP) Hibiscus Response to Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders [more...]
Hibiscus Jamaica Treats Children More than 120 children were treated to food, games, gifts, and goodies courtesy of a Christmas fête facilitated by Hibiscus Jamaica Limited. The youngsters were largely from inner-city communities across Kingston, Jamaica. Some of them were children ...
Big drop in J’can drug mules in UK prisons By Cassandra Brenton Associate Editor, Jamaica Observer, Sunday, November 21, 2010. The relevance of the Eva Goes to Foreign campaign is paying off. The messages have worked well as a deterrent," Heaven explained. This campaign, ...
By Kimmo Matthews, Jamaica Observer Thursday, September 16, 2010 HIBISCUS Jamaica, an organisation which caters to the needs of deported women, this morning fully opened its new premises located at West Avenue in Kingston. "The new facility will ...
21 deportees graduate sewing and business course BY LUKE DOUGLAS Career & Education writer, Jamaica Observer, Sunday, August 01, 2010 WHEN Coleen Dyer was deported to Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 2004, she felt her life had hit rock bottom. But on July ...
BY PETRE WILLIAMS-RAYNOR Jamaica Observer, Sunday, August 01, 2010 AT 43 years old, Rosemarie has experienced unimaginable misery. Still, she refuses to lose hope. In the last decade alone, she was imprisoned for trafficking cocaine, gone close to death's ...
Rate of drug shipment to Ghana becoming worse – Bartels Accra Daily Mail, 26/10/07 Mr Kwamena Bartels, Minister of Interior on Wednesday bemoaned the rate at which massive quantities of drugs, were being shipped into the country and said government would make the necessary amendments to. ...
Supporting Jamaican Deported Migrants and their Families, Kingston, Jamaica, February 2010 Hibiscus in collaboration with the Institute of Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and funding from the United Nations Development Programme have embarked on a new project to help Jamaican women returning home ...
Born behind bars, The Observer, Sunday 21 February 2010 by Cat McShane and Eva Wiseman Between 2005 and 2008, 283 babies were born in British prisons. Some mothers recall going into labour at night, to the sound of fighting. Many babies were delivered through emergency caesarean; many were born with ...
Children held unnecessarily at Yarl’s Wood – inspector By Dominic Casciani BBC News 25/03/2010 An inspection report on Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre has sharply criticised the detention of children. Chief prisons inspector Dame Anne Owers said some children were held at the Bedfordshire centre ...
Olga Heaven and Barbara Hudson INTRODUCTION The aim of this chapter is to explore the relationships between 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'crime', and we shall examine how these conflated and complex terms are used interchangeably. There is a ...
Stopping Ghana’s Drug Trade: a report by Guy Smith, BBC NEWS. FPWP Hibiscus launches a campaign in Ghana to educate young people about the dangers of becoming drug mules. Watch video from the BBC NEWS archive.
ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING Global Eye on Human Traffiking, 5 May 2009 Olga Heaven spoke to the Global Eye team about the deception and exploitation of drug mules, and about the link between illicit drug importation and human trafficking. How ...
Long sentences for drug mules were never going to act as a deterrent The Guardian, Thursday 14 May 2009 These naive smugglers are typically badly educated single mothers coerced into crime, says Olga Heaven It was heartening to read that prison sentences for "drug mules" - men and women who ...
Bola Gets Rich Quick Drug education campaign launched in Nigeria in 2006 and 2008. West Africa has become a transit point for South American cocaine barons who are targeting Europe. The campaign in Nigeria was first launched in November 2006. Hibiscus ...
Maame Goes to London Ghana, November 2007, FPWP/Hibiscus in partnership with the British High Commission in Accra, launches the public information campaign ‘Maame goes to London’ Preparation for the campaign involved establishing local partnerships and meeting the community leaders, the ...
