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• Celebrating resistance in Refugee Week

  14 June 2018

  This Refugee Week Quakers in Britain are welcoming poets and musicians to help change the way refugees are seen. A line-up of award-winning voices at These Walls Must Fall will celebrate resistance to injustice.

• Appeal court overturns ruling on investments

  7 June 2018

  Quakers in Britain are disappointed and concerned following a UK appeal court ruling this week affirming the government's right to restrict local councils from divesting from companies whose activities they regard as unethical. This includes firms profiting from the UK defence industry, fossil fuel extraction or the military occupation of Palestine.

• Welcome for recommended child rights review of armed forces in Scottish schools

  4 June 2018

  Quakers are welcoming an important step forward in challenging the militarisation of Scottish schools. Led by faith, Quakers fear that when education is militarised, children's rights suffer.

• Quakers join call urging UK government to support UN Gaza inquiry

  1 June 2018

  Shocking violence suffered by Palestinians on the Gaza border in recent months has left 112 Palestinians dead and more than 13,300 injured. The UN Human Rights Council voted recently to establish an independent Commission of Inquiry. However, the UK government abstained. Quakers are appalled.

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell in conversation

  26 May 2018

  This week Quakers across Britain are heading for Hay Literary Festival. The impressive line-up of 600 speakers includes Quakers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and author Sally Nicholls.

• Quakers condemn provocative US embassy move

  14 May 2018

  Amid rising tension and aggression in the region, opening the new US embassy in Jerusalem is an act of provocation as Palestinians mourn the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), say Quakers in Britain.

• Quakers take long hard look at faith

  7 May 2018

  Quakers in Britain are taking a bold step to rewrite their book of discipline that has guided their work and witness across the centuries.

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