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• Letter to the Prime Minister from the Humanitarian and Human Rights Sector on Rafah

  13 February 2024

  Alongside other charities and faith organisations, Quakers in Britain have written to the Prime Minister calling on him to use the UK's diplomatic pressure to urge Israel to change course.

• Quaker peace education gathers momentum

  1 February 2024

  Quaker peace education is gathering momentum with the piloting of a three-day sustainable model for peer mediation training.

• UK must take urgent action after ICJ genocide ruling, Quakers say

  30 January 2024

  Quakers have welcomed, with a heavy heart, the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that there is a plausible risk Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

• Quakers join over 260 organisations calling on House of Lords to block Rwanda Bill

  30 January 2024

  Along with 260 charities, faiths and civil society bodies, Quakers in Britain called on the House of Lords this week to block the “deeply harmful" Rwanda Bill.

• Peace is Every Step: thousands join silent peace walk

  22 January 2024

  Quakers and other faith groups took to the streets of London in a silent walk for peace on Sunday, 21 January.

• Quakers in Britain condemn UK and US airstrikes in Yemen

  17 January 2024

  Quakers have called on the UK government to use peaceful means to resolve conflicts in the Middle East, following the attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.

• Quakers brief MPs and peers on right to boycott

  11 January 2024

  Quakers in Britain briefed parliamentarians on the anti-boycott bill before its third reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 10 January.

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