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• Church leaders call for an end to the hostile environment

  10 August 2018

  In an open letter to Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, twenty faith representatives have called for an end to the hostile environment.

• Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  6 August 2018

  Around the world this week, ceremonies will mark the anniversaries of the first atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945. Quakers will be among those remembering lives lost.

• Riding for equality

  24 July 2018

  LATEST: Friday 3 August

  The Ride arrived in London. Three hundred miles across vale and cities, they carried their Declaration from Cumbria and handed it in to 10 Downing Street.

  
  

  
  

• Quakers reimagine the economic system

  3 July 2018

  Young adult Quakers came together this week with a common desire for a new economic system that is fairer, more sustainable and resilient. They call for urgent change and a system more focused on wellbeing and the common good.

• Quakers call for leaders with integrity

  10 July 2018

  Amid the noise around the visit to Britain of the president of the United States, Quakers in Britain are asserting that, “Humanity needs leaders of integrity and conscience, ready to be held to account by individuals and institutions, national and international."

• Charities warn government policies damage democracy

  5 July 2018

  In National Democracy Week, 2–8 July, Quakers in Britain have joined not-for-profit organisations urging the government to ditch policies that are silencing civil society groups.

• Time to rethink national security

  15 June 2018

  Activists and academics met today at a groundbreaking conference in London. “Rethinking Security" found energy, passion and positive thoughts for new approaches to national security.

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