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• Celebrating votes for women

  6 February 2018

  One hundred years ago, some women won the right to vote in UK general elections. This was a monumental step towards universal suffrage.

  Not all women, and not all men.

• Time to tackle hidden hunger

  30 January 2018

  New figures released today show the extent of 'hidden hunger' across Britain. Quakers in Britain are part of a coalition calling for a national measure of food insecurity to tackle it.

• Observing Holocaust Memorial Day

  26 January 2018

  Deeply moving events to mark international Holocaust Memorial Day are taking place this week. Quakers across Britain are taking part.

• No safe hands for unsafe weapons

  5 January 2018

  An international gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners and peace activists met in Friends House this week to face a challenge: how to get nuclear states on side with the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

• Faith leaders say no to nuclear weapons

  14 December 2017

  In a week when the Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons, leaders from all faiths across the UK are calling on the government to affirm the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

• Marking the Nobel Peace Prize anniversary

  11 December 2017

  This week marks the 70th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee, representing British and Americans Quakers.

• Standing up for human rights

  10 December 2017

  Amid great constitutional change and uncertainty and on UN Human Rights Day, Quakers in Britain are joining more than 140 civil society groups in an open letter to the prime minister. They are seeking commitment to “stand firm on universal human rights standards as the foundation of a forward-looking UK".

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