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• Quakers join calls for the UK to review its trade agreement with Israel

  24 September 2024

  Quakers in Britain are calling on the UK to review its trade relations with Israel due to serious breaches of international law and human rights in occupied Palestine.

• US Quaker Emily Provance to deliver 2025 Swarthmore Lecture

  18 September 2024

  New York Quaker Emily Provance will give next year's Swarthmore Lecture, focusing on the meaning of Quaker community and the challenges of cooperation.

• Benson Alusiola Khamasi

  6 September 2024

  It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our colleague, Benson Alusiola Khamasi.

• Help undocumented migrants to regularise immigration status, Quakers say

  4 September 2024

  Quakers joined dozens of other charities in urging Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to make it easier for undocumented migrants to regularise their immigration status.

• Quakers urge full ban on UK arms exports to Israel

  3 September 2024

  The government's suspension of some arms exports is a welcome recognition of the clear risk that Israel is using UK arms to violate international humanitarian law, but does not go nearly far enough, Quakers in Britain said.

• UN committee echoes Quaker concerns over racism in the UK

  28 August 2024

  The United Nations has recognised a wide range of concerns raised by civil society organisations including Quakers in its latest review of racism in the UK.

• Quakers submit video evidence on lack of UK progress on racism to the UN

  14 August 2024

  The UK must do more to tackle racism, Quakers in Britain said as the country faces a review by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

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