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• Congratulating ICAN on Nobel Peace Prize

  8 December 2017

  The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize will be presented this weekend to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. ICAN is a coalition that includes Quaker Peace & Social Witness.

• Quakers condemn US recognition of Jerusalem

  6 December 2017

  Quakers in Britain have made this statement responding to the announcement from the president of the United States concerning Jerusalem.

• Challenging immigration policies

  4 December 2017

  Britain's Quakers are pledging to challenge immigration policies. The position takes a stand against the scandal of indefinite immigration detention, pledges support for 'new, peaceful, safer routes of migration', and opposes the possibility of unjust deportations and forced removals.

• Climate activists say 1.5° to stay alive

  21 November 2017

  Quakers in Britain are calling on the government to face up to the UK's full obligations to tackle climate change.

• Budget call: end austerity now

  20 November 2017

  Ahead of this year's budget on Wednesday, CLASS think tank is writing an Open Letter to the government, demanding the end to austerity. Quakers in Britain are supporting the letter.

• Faith groups pledge action on climate change

  10 November 2017

  This week's global gathering on climate change brings politicians and activists to Bonn, Germany. The 23rd annual conference of the parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) aims to prevent dangerous global warming. Quakers in Britain have signed statements urging the conference to take urgent action.

• Wearing poppies in hope and remembrance

  3 November 2017

  In these sombre days of Remembrance, many wear red or white poppies. Some wear both together.

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