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Quakers concerned by Home Secretary’s inflammatory rhetoric and failures in the asylum system
3 November 2022
Quakers are writing to the Home Secretary to express concern that the 'hostile environment' of dangerously over-crowded immigration centres and demonisation of migrants in parliament is fanning the flames of hate.
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Quakers opening warm banks despite ‘rage at necessity’
2 November 2022
Quakers offer meeting houses as warm spaces, but call for solutions which tackle the root causes of fuel poverty.
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Quakers endorse calls for wealthy nations to stop blocking funding for climate loss and damage
25 October 2022
Thirty-one years after the first calls for financial support for those wrestling with climate disasters, a new brief calls for a loss and damage finance facility to be agreed at COP27 in Egypt.
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Quakers protest government drive to reopen immigration removal centres
19 October 2022
Why is the British government returning to locking up asylum seekers when alternatives are more humane and effective?
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Quakers fight deportation of Zimbabwean Quaker human rights defender
13 October 2022
Quakers in Stockton-on-Tees have rallied around a fellow Quaker who fears for her life if returned to Zimbabwe thanks to the UK government's hostile environment for asylum seekers.
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Quakers welcome parliamentary report condemning indeterminate sentences
11 October 2022
Quakers in Criminal Justice have endorsed a Justice Committee report on Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences which found them to be irredeemably flawed.