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Peace groups unite to oppose world’s biggest arms fair
14 September 2023
Quakers maintained a strong dissenting presence outside the world's biggest market for weapons as it emerged that the UK government had invited countries on its own watch list.
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Quakers in Britain appoints a new Finance Director
14 September 2023
Quakers in Britain has appointed a new Finance Director, Vipan Narang, who joins the organisation after four years at the Association of Anaesthetists, where he was chief operating officer.
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Swarthmore Lecture 2024 to focus on prisons and punishment
12 September 2023
Next year's Swarthmore Lecture, a key date in the Quaker diary, will be delivered by prison expert Ben Jarman.
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Quakers protest human cost of arms trade
7 September 2023
Quakers are protesting outside a huge arms fair in east London which is going ahead despite appalled opposition from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
UPDATE: Several Quakers were arrested on Thursday, 7 September, during Meeting for Worship at No Faith in War Day.
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‘In perpetual purgatory’: Quakers fear for lives of offenders with indeterminate sentences
6 September 2023
The government should re-sentence all remaining IPP prisoners, Quakers say, as new figures show hundreds recalled to prison despite not being charged with a further offence.
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Quakers petition prime minister on right to boycott
31 August 2023
Quakers in Britain joined others to hand in a petition at 10 Downing Street urging prime minister Rishi Sunak to scrap the anti-boycott bill.