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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.
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Quakers in Britain are shocked and deeply saddened by the major escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine
11 October 2023
As of 11 October 2023, more than 1,200 people have been killed in Israel and more than 900 in Gaza. Over 2,700 people have been injured in Israel, and 4,250 in Gaza. More than 260,000 Gazans have been displaced from their homes. Up to 150 people have been taken hostage by Hamas. Behind these rising numbers of deaths and casualties are individual lives ended or changed irrevocably. We mourn those lives already lost and call for an immediate de-escalation.
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East Africa peace work threatened by unprecedented challenges
4 October 2023
The conflict in Ukraine, coronavirus pandemic and climate change are all putting intolerable pressure on peace work in East Africa, peacebuilders say.
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Quakers hold the silence for their beliefs
28 September 2023
This year's Quaker Week began (suitably) with silence as hundreds of Quakers across England and Scotland held climate vigils.
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Peace groups unite to oppose world’s biggest arms fair
14 September 2023
Quakers maintained a strong dissenting presence outside the world's biggest market for weapons as it emerged that the UK government had invited countries on its own watch list.
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Quakers protest human cost of arms trade
7 September 2023
Quakers are protesting outside a huge arms fair in east London which is going ahead despite appalled opposition from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
UPDATE: Several Quakers were arrested on Thursday, 7 September, during Meeting for Worship at No Faith in War Day.