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• Quakers call for inquiry into use of hotels for vulnerable asylum-seeking children

  15 March 2023

  Quakers have joined 50 other organisations in writing to the Joint Committee on Human Rights seeking an urgent inquiry into the use of hotels for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

• Quakers join forces with Wildlife Trust to benefit nature and community

  13 March 2023

  Quakers in Norton are working with Tees Valley Wildlife Trust to use their burial ground for nature and local people.

• Quakers address the monarch at Buckingham Palace

  10 March 2023

  Quakers from Britain and Ireland visited Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 9 March, to exercise their historic right to address the King.

• Quaker pamphlet to counteract militarisation of British schools

  9 March 2023

  Quakers have produced a resource to help schools offer a balanced perspective after their research found widespread targeting of schoolchildren by the armed forces and arms companies.

• New migration bill is inhumane, Quakers say

  8 March 2023

  Quakers in Britain have described the government's new migration bill as 'inhumane' because it would subject thousands of vulnerable people to destitution, detention and deportation.

• Marking a year of war in Ukraine

  23 February 2023

  As the war in Ukraine reaches its first anniversary, Quakers mourn the loss of life, devastation and suffering and continue to call for a cessation of fighting, for Russian withdrawal and for all parties to observe international law.

• Loving Earth textiles highlighting threats to natural world comes to Westminster

  22 February 2023

  A Quaker-led textile exhibition about the survival of the planet is on show to politicians in Portcullis House.

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