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Quakers call on government to honour international climate finance pledge
2 November 2023
Quakers have joined more than 70 other organisations in writing to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to demand the government reverse its climate finance changes.
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Quakers join Christian calls for an end to violence in Israel and Palestine
27 October 2023
Quakers in Britain have signed a joint statement with church leaders and Christian organisations, convened by Christian Aid.
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Quakers host inaugural UK Reparations Conference
26 October 2023
Quakers in Britain played host to the UK's first reparations conference organized by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations (APPG-AR), at Friends House in Euston last weekend.
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Quaker organizations call for a ceasefire and humanitarian protections in Gaza
18 October 2023
Quakers in Britain have joined American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation and the Quaker United Nations Office in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Human rights monitors safely home from Palestine
14 October 2023
Two Irish nationals in Palestine to monitor the human rights situation on behalf of British and Irish churches and NGOs have been evacuated.
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Don’t recruit children, Quakers say, amid reports of sexual assault at a military training centre
12 October 2023
Nine rapes were reported to the police at Harrogate's Army Foundation College last year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has shown.