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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Glasgow school children perform peace play in Scottish Parliament

  25 September 2023

  Pupils from Glasgow's Oakgrove Primary School performed their own version of “Wangari's Trees of Peace" at Holyrood on Peace Day, Thursday, 21 September.
  

• Quakers risk prison to defend vital legal precedent

  21 September 2023

  The ancient right of juries to rule according to their convictions, established during the trial of two Quaker preachers in 1670, is under threat.

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