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• Public Order Bill passes milestone

  19 October 2022

  A bill which would drastically limit the right to protest in England and Wales has passed through the House of Commons.

• Quakers protest government drive to reopen immigration removal centres

  19 October 2022

  Why is the British government returning to locking up asylum seekers when alternatives are more humane and effective?

• Quakers fight deportation of Zimbabwean Quaker human rights defender

  13 October 2022

  Quakers in Stockton-on-Tees have rallied around a fellow Quaker who fears for her life if returned to Zimbabwe thanks to the UK government's hostile environment for asylum seekers.

• Quakers welcome parliamentary report condemning indeterminate sentences

  11 October 2022

  Quakers in Criminal Justice have endorsed a Justice Committee report on Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences which found them to be irredeemably flawed.

• British and US Quakers hold silent worship outside one of world's biggest investors in coal

  7 October 2022

  Quakers on either side of the Atlantic held a public act of prayer outside Vanguard buildings today, 7 October, asking financial giant to abandon fossil fuels.

• Quakers reach out for co-operation on truth and integrity

  4 October 2022

  Quakers concerned about the decline of integrity in public life and beyond have released a declaration, asking others to work with them.

• Quakers stand by peaceful climate protestors

  28 September 2022

  Quakers across Britain are supporting peaceful protestors who took nonviolent action to demand an end to new oil and gas projects in the UK and have been found guilty of breaking an injunction.

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