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• Quaker pacifist seized off Kyiv street

  20 March 2026

  Update: 23 March 2026. Quaker and conscientious objector Yurii Sheliazhenko has been released from military custody in Ukraine after being forcibly detained last Thursday. Yurii was beaten, pepper-sprayed, dragged by his feet and hair and humiliated during his detention.

• Quakers take protest rights fight to Parliament and the UN

  19 March 2026

  Quakers joined hundreds of campaigners this week in a two-day stand for the right to protest, bringing their witness to New Scotland Yard, the Houses of Parliament, and the United Nations.

• Quakers take historic step

  11 March 2026

  Quakers in Britain this weekend brought their Meeting for Sufferings – a body that has met for more than 350 years – to an end as they move into a simplified structure for modern times.

• UK's climate finance cuts betray the world's poorest, say Quakers

  11 March 2026

  Quakers in Britain are deeply disappointed at government plans to slash funding that protects nature and tackles climate change in the world's poorest countries.

• Westminster Quaker Meeting House suffers second Met Police raid

  6 March 2026

  For the second time in less than a year, Metropolitan Police officers have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House, arresting young activists.

• Quaker Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again

  6 March 2026

  Yesterday evening, 5 March 2026, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there, on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act.

• Children’s art for peace in Quaker central offices

  4 March 2026

  Eighty years after the Korean peninsula was divided by war, an exhibition of drawings by children on both sides of the divide is on show in Quaker central offices, London.

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