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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.

• Quakers in Britain appoints a new Finance Director

  14 September 2023

  Quakers in Britain has appointed a new Finance Director, Vipan Narang, who joins the organisation after four years at the Association of Anaesthetists, where he was chief operating officer.

• Swarthmore Lecture 2024 to focus on prisons and punishment

  12 September 2023

  Next year's Swarthmore Lecture, a key date in the Quaker diary, will be delivered by prison expert Ben Jarman.

• 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.

• ‘In perpetual purgatory’: Quakers fear for lives of offenders with indeterminate sentences

  6 September 2023

  The government should re-sentence all remaining IPP prisoners, Quakers say, as new figures show hundreds recalled to prison despite not being charged with a further offence.

• Quakers petition prime minister on right to boycott

  31 August 2023

  Quakers in Britain joined others to hand in a petition at 10 Downing Street urging prime minister Rishi Sunak to scrap the anti-boycott bill.

• Quakers called to hold climate vigils across the UK during Quaker Week

  29 August 2023

  A new climate support group is encouraging Quakers to bear witness to their concern for the climate by holding vigils this September.

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